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The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 7 (of 8)

Note 799 — 1833

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The Cocytus was a tributary of the Acheron, in Epirus, but was supposed to have some connection with the underworld, doubtless, as Wordsworth puts it,

from the moans Heard on his rueful margin.

Compare Homer, Odyssey x. 513, and Virgil, Aenid vi. 295.—Ed.

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