λήθης (lethes)

λήθης is an Ancient Greek form of λήθη, meaning “forgetfulness”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun.

It can also be a form of Λήθη, “Lethe — the personification of oblivion, is called by Hesiod a daughter of Eris”. It is the genitive singular feminine noun or adjective.

Found 64 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Plutarch, Artaxerxes 10.1: … ζου δὲ ἀναβαλόντος αὐτὸν ἐπʼ ἄλλον ἵππον ταχὺ καὶ εἰπόντος, ὦ βασιλεῦ, μέμνησο τῆς ἡμέρας ταύτης· οὐ γὰρ ἀξία λήθης ἐστί, πάλιν ὁ Κῦρος ἐνσείσας τῷ ἵππῳ κατέβαλε τὸν Ἀρτοξέρξην.

Plutarch, Quaestiones Romanae 34: … , ἐν τῷ Δεκεμβρίῳ τοῦτʼ ἔπραττεν (ἦν δʼ οὗτος ὁ Λυσιτάνειαν ἐπελθὼν καὶ πρῶτος ἐπέκεινα στρατῷ διαβὰς τὸν τῆς Λήθης ποταμόν); πότερον, ὥσπερ ἡμέρας ληγούσης καὶ μηνὸς φθίνοντος εἰώθασιν ἐναγίζειν οἱ πολλοί, λόγον ἔχει καὶ τοῦ …

All forms of λήθη (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.