Reading notes

• The Aeneid §3.215 Stygian

  The river Styx of the underworld; no crueller plague has risen 'from the Stygian waves.'

• The Aeneid §4.699 Stygian

  The underworld river Styx; Dido's life had not yet been doomed to Stygian Orcus.

• The Aeneid §6.134 the Stygian lakes

  The marsh-river Styx, by which the gods themselves swear; it rings the realm of the dead nine times.

• The Aeneid §6.323 Stygian marsh

  The water of Styx and the pools of Cocytus, by whose power the gods fear to swear falsely.

• The Aeneid §8.296 Stygian pools

  The Styx, the underworld river; even its pools trembled at Hercules' descent.

• The Aeneid §12.91 Stygian wave

  The Styx, in whose water Vulcan tempered Daunus' sword.

• The Georgics §1.243 Styx

  The chief river of the dead, which beholds the pole sunk beneath our feet.