lethe

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. özel isim The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.
2. özel isim The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.

   “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:”

3. isim Forgetfulness of the past; oblivion.

   “So in the Lethe of thy angry ſoule, Thou drowne the ſad remembrance of thoſe wrongs, Which thou ſuppoſest I haue done to thee.”

4. isim Dissimulation.

   “Till that the conquering Wine hath ſteep't our ſenſe, In ſoft and delicate Lethe.”

5. isim Death.

   “Pardon me Iulius, here was't thou bay'd braue Hart, Heere did'ſt thou fall, and heere thy Hunters ſtand Sign'd in thy Spoyle, and Crimſon'd in thy Lethee.”