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Lethe: in Greek mythology, a river in Hades, the drinking of whose waters caused forgetfulness of the past; hence, ‘waters of oblivion’ Tw.N. IV. i. 66, 2H4 V. ii. 72 “wash'd in , and forgotten,” R3 IV. iv. 251, Ant. II. vii. 115 “steep'd our sense In soft and delicate ” ; attrib. Ham. I. v. 33 “ wharf.” ∥ In Cæs. III. i. 206 (F1 “Lethee”) used for ‘death’ app. through the influence of Latin “let(h)um”; cf. Blount ‘Glossographia’, 1670, ‘Lethean’, deadly, mortal.
A Shakespeare Glossary. C. T. Onions. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1911.
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