Phlegethon

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Phlegethon \Phleg"e*thon\, n. [L., fr. Gr. ?, prop. p. pr. of ?
     to blaze.] (Class Myth.)
     One of the principal rivers of Hades, in the channel of which
     fire flowed instead of water.
  
           Fierce Phlegethon,


           Whose waves of torrent fire inflame with rage.
                                                    --Milton.
     [Webster 1913 Suppl.]