Lethe
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英文释义
专有名词
- The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.
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The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.
— No wonder these mortal Folks have so many Complaints, […] 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.
词源
From Latin Lēthē, from Ancient Greek Λήθη (Lḗthē).
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