I.the stream of woe).
I. A river in Epirus, which flows through the Lake Acherusia into the Ambracian Gulf, now Suli, Liv. 8, 24, 3; Plin. 4, 1, 1, § 4.—
II. A fabulous river in the Lower World: “illi qui fluere apud inferos dicuntur, Acheron, Cocytus, Styx, etc.,” Cic. N. D. 3, 17: via Tartarei quae fert Acherontis ad undas, Verg. A., 6, 295 al.—Hence,
B. The Lower World itself: Acherontem obibo, ubi mortis thesauri objacent, Enn. ap. Fest. p. 201 Müll. (Trag. v. 278 ed. Vahl.): “flectere si nequeo Superos, Acheronta movebo,” Verg. A. 7, 312: “perrupit Acheronta Herculeus labor,” Hor. C. 1, 3, 36. In prose: “ut eum suo sanguine ab Acheronte, si possent, cuperent redimere,” Nep. Dion. 10, 2.—Hence, Ăchĕrontēus , a, um, adj., pertaining to the Acheron, Claud. Rapt. Pros. 2, 351.
