1. λήθη · lēthē — Beekes
λήθη VAR λήθω, etc. =AavOavw. ληΐϊζομαι VAR Also Anin, Anis. =Akia. — [Beekes, s.v. λήθη, p. 903]
The corpus record
λήθη
lethe
VAR λήθω, etc
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Where it lives
- To Demonicus 2 · 6.92/10k
- Virtues and Vices 1 · 6.74/10k
- De longitudine et brevitate vitae 1 · 5.68/10k
- Philebus 6 · 3.4/10k
- Sapientia Salomonis 2 · 2.9/10k
- Machabaeorum IV 2 · 2.59/10k
- Menexenus 1 · 2.08/10k
- Meditations 6 · 2.06/10k
- Machabaeourum III 1 · 1.99/10k
- Panathenaicus 2 · 1.26/10k
- To Philip 1 · 1.14/10k
- Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Densest 12 of 32 attested works shown, by occurrences per 10,000 attested tokens.
What it meant
2. λήθη · lēthē — Chantraine
λήθη, λήθω, voir λανθάνω. ληΐζομαι, ληΐη, ληΐς, voir λεία. — [Chantraine, s.v. λήθη, p. 653]
3. λήθ-η · lēth-ē — LSJ
forgetting, forgetfulness, forgetting, forgotten
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.
II a place of oblivion
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.)
In the wild
- λήθη · lēthē Aristotle, De longitudine et brevitate vitae (DIORISIS sentence 8)
- λήθην · lēthēn Aristotle, Metaphysics book 11 (DIORISIS sentence 3197)
- λήθην · lēthēn Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1135b (DIORISIS sentence 1824)
- λήθη · lēthē Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1140b (DIORISIS sentence 2036)
- λήθην · lēthēn Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics 1157b (DIORISIS sentence 2754)
- λήθη · lēthē Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
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Where it came from
- Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. λήθη (scan p. 903; entry #3741).
- Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. λήθη (scan p. 653; entry #4808).
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