Lethe

lethe Léthé Translingual thumb|Lethe europa species ''Lethe europa Etymology Borrowed from mul la Lēthē and mul grc Λήθη, the Greek river of oblivion in Hades. Further from mul grc λήθη oblivion; forgetfulness. Proper noun 1 f genus family Nymphalidae butterflies of southeastern Asia and North America, called tree browns, wood browns, and foresters Hypernyms genus ; Satyrinae subfamily - subfamily; Satyrini tribe - tribe; Lethina subtribe - subtribe Hyponyms genus Lethe europa species (bamboo treebrown) - type species References Lethe (butterfly) Lethe (butterfly) 1 1 mul Satyrine butterflies English Etymology From en la Lēthē, from en grc Λήθη. Pronunciation en /ˈliːθi/ en LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-lethe.wav Southern England en iːθi 2 Proper noun en Greek mythology The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris. en with or without the Greek mythology The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth. en Acheron Cocytus Eridanus Phlegethon Styx en 1740 1782 w:David Garrick Lethe: or Aesop in the Shade https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004804827.0001.000?rgn=main;view=fulltext No wonder these mortal Folks have so many Complaints, when there's no Patience among 'em; if they were dead now, and to be settled here for ever, they'd be damn'd before they'd make such a Rout come over—“But care, I suppose, is thirsty; and till they have drench’d themselves with Lethe, there will be no quiet among ’em” however, I’ll e’en to work; and so, friend Æsop, and brother Mercury, good bye to ye. https://web.archive.org/web/20230406190054/https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/ecco/004804827.0001.000?rgn=main;view=fulltext 6 April 2023 en 1820 Ode to a Nightingale w:John Keats 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: IV I IV 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. Sapphics 238 By the grey sea-side, unassuaged, unheard of, / Unbeloved, unseen in the ebb of twilight, / Ghosts of outcast women return lamenting, / Purged not in Lethe, 6 A well-fed man is not driven to drink by the craving that torments the hungry; and the comfortable do not crave for the boon of forgetfulness. Gin is the only Lethe of the miserable. en 1891 w:Oscar Wilde Intentions The Critic as Artist When we have done penance, and are purified, and have drunk of the fountain of Lethe and bathed in the fountain of Eunoe, the mistress of our soul raises us to the Paradise of Heaven. en 1974 Covington Scott Littleton Hades The World Book Encyclopedia 9 (H) Chicago, Ill. Field Enterprises Educational Corporation 4 https://archive.org/details/worldbookencycloh09fiel/page/4/mode/1up 2 0-7166-0074-9 The Greeks believed that Hades was beneath the earth. It had five rivers—the Acheron, the Kokytos, the Lethe, the Pyriphlegethon, and the Styx. Each served as a boundary between the land of the living and the land of the dead. en 2015 Peter E. Meltzer The Thinker's Thesaurus W. W. Norton & Company 9780393338973 oblivion n.: Lethe. In Greek mythology, Lethe (pronounced LEEthee) is one of the several rivers of Hades. Those who drink from it experience complete forgetfulness. Today it is used to refer to one in an oblivious or forgetful state. Derived terms en Lethean Lethy Related terms en lethargy, en lethargic Translations personification of oblivion Esperanto: eo Leteo Finnish: fi Lethe French: fr Léthé m German: de Lethe f Greek: el Λήθη f Ancient Greek: grc Λήθη f Hebrew: he לתה Inuktitut: iu ᓖᑎ Italian: it Lete m Japanese: ja レーテー Rētē, ja レテ Rete Korean: ko ^레테 Latin: la Lethe Portuguese: pt Lete m Russian: ru Ле́та f Spanish: es Lete m, es Leteo m Anagrams en eehlt Ethel Leeth Theel ethel German Etymology de :bor la:Lēthē de la Lēthē. Proper noun de proper noun f genitive Lethes or Lethe de mythology literary Lethe 13 Zeit, sagt man, ist Lethe; aber auch Fernluft ist so ein Trank, und sollte sie weniger gründlich wirken, so tut sie es dafür desto rascher. Further reading Latin Etymology la Lēthē :bor grc:Λήθη + 1 Pronunciation Lēthē Proper noun Lēthē<1.loc> (Greek) la Greek mythology the river Lethe, the river of oblivion Declension Lēthē<1.loc> Derived terms la Lēthaeus References