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λήθη

lethe

forgetting, forgetfulness

Appears 14 times across Plato's dialogues.

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Dictionary (LSJ)

λήθη, Dor. λάθα, ἡ, A. forgetting, forgetfulness, personified in Hes. Th. 227; μηδέ σε λήθη αἱρείτω Il. 2.33; [Περσεφόνη] βροτοῖς παρέχει λήθην, βλάπτουσα νόοιο Thgn. 705; κακοῦ λ. S. Ph. 878, cf.E. Ba. 282, Or. 213; λήθην ποιεύμενος τά μιν ἐόργεε forgetting . . , Hdt. 1.127; λ. ποιεῖν τινος S. Fr. 259; Λήθην . . κωφήν, ἄναυδον Id. Fr. 670; χρόνος πάντα . . ἐς λ. ἄγει Id. Fr. 954; τῶν ἰδίων λ. λαβών Timocl. 6.5, cf. Phld. Rh. 1.254 S.; τῶν αὑτοῦ κακῶν ἐπάγεσθαι λ. Men. 467; παρέχειν Pl. Phdr. 275a; ἐμποιεῖν Id. Phlb. 63e; λήθην ἐμποιῆσαι τῶν πεπραγμένων Isoc. 1.8; εἰς λήθην ἐμβαλεῖν τινα Aeschin. 3.205; λήθη λαμβάνει, ἔχει τινά, Th. 2.49, D. 18.283; λήθη τινὸς ἐγγίγνεταί τινι X. Mem. 1.2.21; εἰς λ. ἀφιγμένα forgotten, Phld. Ir.p.19 W. II. after Hom., of a place of oblivion in the lower world, Λήθης δόμοι Simon. 184.6; τὸ Λήθης πεδίον Ar. Ra. 186; τὸ τῆς Λ. π. Pl. R. 621a, D.H. 8.52; Λ. ὕδωρ Luc. DMort. 13.6, Paus. 9.39.8, Aesop. 168; also, ὁ τῆς Λήθης ποταμός, of the river Λιμαίας in Lusitania, Str. 3.3.4, 5, cf. App. Hisp. 73 (71). (Λήθη as pr. n. of a river is not found.)
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