Stygian

Stygian

The word Stygian as a synonym usually refers to the River Styx of the underworld Hades. It may also refer to:

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Famous quotes containing the word stygian:

    “I will catch Christ with a greased worm,
    And when the Prince of Darkness stalks
    My bloodstream to its Stygian term . . .
    On water the Man-Fisher walks.”
    —Robert Lowell (1917–1977)

    “Stand close around,ye Stygian set,
    With Dirce in one boat convey’d,
    Or Charon, seeing, may forget
    That he is old, and she a shade.”
    —Walter Savage Landor (1775–1864)

    “A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the brain, dangerous to the lungs, and in the black, stinking fume thereof nearest resembling the horrible Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomless.”
    —James I of England, James VI of Scotland (1566–1625)