In mythology it was the name of a river of Hades, the kingdom of the dead. It was a tributary of the Acheron. Hellish smoke. Father of Minta or Mint, a lover of Pluto, who was turned into a plant.
n Greek mythology, the Cocito is a river of Hades, the country of the dead, by whose banks wandered those who could not pay Charon, according to most sources, for 100 years.