Lethe Hear it!

Lethe Definition

Le·the (lē′t̸hē)

noun

  1. Gr. & Rom. Myth. the river of forgetfulness, flowing through Hades, whose water produces loss of memory in those who drink of it
  2. oblivion; forgetfulness

Etymology: L < Gr lēthē, forgetfulness, oblivion: see latent

Lethe Related Forms
Le·the′an (lē t̸hē′ən) adjective
Lethe Quotes

And if no Lethe flows beneath your casement, And when ten years have not brought full effacement, Philosophy was wrong, and you may meet.

—Ransom,John Crowe

My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the drains One minute past, and Lethe-wards had sunk: 'Tis not through envy of thy happy lot, But being too happy in thine happiness That thou, light-winged Dryad of the trees, In some melodious plot Of beechen green, and shadows numberless, Singest of summer in full-throated ease.

—Keats,John