Monday, June 11, 2012

WORDS TO THE WISE - 9

NEPENTHE
noun
a potion used by the ancients to induce forgetfulness of pain or sorrow, something capable of causing oblivion of grief or suffering; anything inducing a pleasurable sensation of forgetfulness especially of sorrow or trouble
[From ancient Greek for a medicine for sorrow, literally an antidepressant.  Figuratively it means that which chases away sorrow, not sorrow or anti-sorrow.  The word nepenthe first appears in the fourth book of Homer's Odyssey.]

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