Λήθη

Where it lives

• Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
• Frogs 1 · 1.1/10k
• Orestes 1 · 1.02/10k
• Republic 2 · 0.23/10k
• Enneads 1 · 0.05/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Λήθης · Lēthēs Aristophanes, Frogs 186–187
• Λήθη · Lēthē Euripides, Orestes (DIORISIS sentence 123)
• Λήθην · Lēthēn Theogony 226–232
• Λήθης · Lēthēs Plato, Republic 10.621 (DIORISIS sentence 6388)
• Λήθης · Lēthēs Plato, Republic 10.621 (DIORISIS sentence 6380)
• Λήθης · Lēthēs Plotinus, Enneads 4.3 (DIORISIS sentence 2672)

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Λήθη (scan p. 903; entry #3741).
• Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque Treated in Chantraine, Dictionnaire etymologique de la langue grecque s.v. Λήθη (scan p. 653; entry #4808).

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