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Letheʹan Dew

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Dreamy forgetfulness; a brown study. Lethē, in mythology, is the river of forgetfulness. Sometimes incorrectly called Leʹthean.

“The soul with tender luxury you [Muses] fill,

And oʹer the senses Lethean dews distill.”


Falconer: The Shipwreck, iii. 4.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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