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in Greek mythology, is one of the rivers of Hadēs, which the souls of all the dead are obliged to taste, that they may forget everything said and done in the earth on which they lived. (Greek lēthe, lathĕo, lanthăno, to cause persons not to know.)
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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.