Associations to the word «Lethe»

Wiktionary

LETHE, proper noun. (Greek mythology) The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.
LETHE, proper noun. (Greek mythology) The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their lives / time on Earth.

Dictionary definition

LETHE, noun. (Greek mythology) a river in Hades; the souls of the dead had to drink from it, which made them forget all they had done and suffered when they were alive.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope