Charon
From TTT
English-Latin
Charon. n.
- The son of Erebus and Nox, whose office it was to ferry the souls of the dead over the Styx, a river of the infernal regions.
Latin-English
Chăr|ōn, -ōnis or -ontis. (ˈka.ron) masc.
- Charon, the ferryman of the underworld.
[Greek Χάρων.]
Loci
- αʹ Cicero, De Natura Deorum 3.43:
| Age porro: Iovem et Neptunum deum numeras; ergo etiam Orcus frater eorum deus, et illi, qui fluere apud inferos dicuntur, Acheron, Cocytus, Pyriphlegethon; tum Charon, tum Cerberus di putandi. | Come on, then: Jupiter and Neptune you count as a god; therefore, Orcus their brother is also a god, as are those who are said to flow in the underworld—Acheron, Cocytus, Pyriphlegethon; and then Charon, and then Cerberus should be considered gods. |
