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A river of liquid fire in Hadēs. (Greek, phlego, to burn.)
“Fierce Phlegethon,
Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.”
Milton: Paradise Lost, ii.
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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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