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The “River of Sorrows” (Greek, achos roös); one of the five rivers of the infernal regions.
“Sad Acheron of sorrow, black and deep.”
Milton: Paradise Lost, ii. 578.
Pabulum Acherontis. Food for the churchyard; said of a dead body.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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