Associations to the word «Nepenthe»

Wiktionary

NEPENTHE, noun. (archaic) A drug that relieves one of emotional pain, grief or sorrow; nepenthes. [from 16th c.]

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope