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For two-and-twenty years he [Doctor Guillotin], unguillotined, shall hear nothing but guillotine, see nothing but guillotine; then dying, shall through long centuries wander, as it were, a disconsolate ghost, on the wrong side of Styx and Lethe; his name like to outlive Cæsar’s.
Bornless one / As darkness bright / Found not in tongues / Found not in light / Bring down the rain / Drain waters of Styx / Faustian luminary / Redeem blaspheme / Like a day without the dawn / Like a ray void of the sun / Like a storm that brings no calm / I'm most complete yet so undone
2015 June 4, “Pluto a jeho měsíce jsou tak trochu splašená mini soustava”, in Česká televize:
Nix, Hydra a podle přesvědčení vědců i Kerberos a Styx mají navíc spíš oválný než kulatý tvar, což ještě víc přispívá k jejich nepředvídatelným oběžným drahám.
The shape of Nix, Hydra and, as scientists are convinced, also Kerberos and Styx is more oval than round, which contributes to unpredictibility of their orbits even more.
Declension
Declension of Styx (sg-only velar masculine inanimate // hard masculine inanimate irreg-stem)
1906, Vladislav Kalousek, “Styx”, in Ottův slovník naučný, volume XXIV, Praha: J. Otto, page 315:
[…] děti její stále obklopují trůn Zévův a Styx stala se bohyní božské přísahy.
her children keep surrounding the Zeus's throne and Styx became the goddess of the divine oath.
Usage notes
The grammatical gender of Styx in the sense of the mythological river can be both masculine and feminine, but the feminine seems obsolete. Current grammar manuals suggest only masculine. (The feminine gender was proposed e. g. in a textbook for secondary schools by M. Blažek in 1877.[1]) However, when speaking about the goddess of the river, the feminine gender has to be used.
Declension
Declension of Styx (sg-only hard feminine irreg-stem)