1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Volume 16… (1911)
“ LETHE (“Oblivion”) , in Greek mythology, the daughter of Eris (Hesiod, Theog. 227) and the personification of forgetfulness. It is also the name of a river in the infernal regions. Those initiated in the mysteries were taught to distinguish two streams in the lower world, one of memory and one of oblivion. ”
