nepenthe

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

In the Odyssey, in connection with Helen, mention is made of nepenthe.

From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Saltus, Edgar

The other, beneath its bitter lash, becomes a human dynamo, plunging into the nepenthe of toil.

From The Lash by Lyman, Olin L.