Acherusia

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Hades, and the headland of Acherusia stretches aloft, and eddying Acheron cleaves its way at the bottom, even through the headland, and sends its waters forth from a huge ravine.

The Argonautica 2008

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And also Lucretius — “Hic Acherusia fit stultorum denique vita.” — iii.

Religio Medici 2007

Here is a downward path to the abode of Hades, and the headland of Acherusia stretches aloft, and eddying Acheron cleaves its way at the bottom, even through the headland, and sends its waters forth from a huge ravine.

The Argonautica Apollonius Rhodius

These showed them the path that went up through the valley of Acherusia.

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Padraic Colum 1926

Then Orpheus went on his way to the valley of Acherusia which goes down, down into the world of the dead.

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Padraic Colum 1926

One condition there would be -- that on their way up through the valley of Acherusia neither

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Padraic Colum 1926

And now they were nearing the place where the valley of Acherusia opened on the world of the living.

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Padraic Colum 1926

And now that he was no longer to be counted with the living, Orpheus went down to the world of the dead, not going now by that steep descent through the valley of Acherusia, but going down straightway.

The Golden Fleece and the Heroes Who Lived Before Achilles Padraic Colum 1926