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κωκ-υ_τός , ὁ,
A.shrieking, wailing, “κωκυτῷ τ᾽ εἴχοντο καὶ οἰμωγῇ” Il.22.409, cf. 447, Pi.P.4.113, A.Ch.150 (pl.); κωκυτὸν ἱέναι, ἠχεῖν, S.Aj.851, Tr.867; “ἀνάγειν” E.Ph.1350 (lyr.): also in late Prose, Luc.Luct.12, Ach.Tat.1.13.
II. as pr. n. Κωκυ_τός, ὁ, Cocytus, River of Wailing (cf. Ἀχέρων), Od.10.514, A.Ag.1160, E.Alc. 458 (lyr.), etc.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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