nepenthe

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Those lyrics, which act upon the mind like nepenthe, are also by Segal, a classics scholar who is driving without a poetic license.

From Time Magazine Archive

And the search is more intense than ever for the Unspoiled Spot, where Those Who Know can get away from it all for a quiet taste of nepenthe with good food and a clean bed.

From Time Magazine Archive

For thrill-loving tourists, for the great, near-great and notorious, Catalina had been nepenthe.

From Time Magazine Archive

Lay thy annulling seal upon the o'erlabored heart: drop thy healing nepenthe into the weary brain.

From War and the Weird by Phillips, Forbes

She sat silent and still, her eyes persistently averted, quaffing deep draughts from a cup eternal, besides which even the nepenthe of the gods is evanescent.

From Woven with the Ship A Novel of 1865 by Brady, Cyrus Townsend