Usually means: Rivers of forgetfulness in mythology.
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  1. lethes: Merriam-Webster
  2. Lethes: Vocabulary.com
  3. Lethe's: Wordnik
  4. Lethes: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (Lethe)

noun:  (Greek mythology) The personification of oblivion, daughter of Eris.
noun:  (Greek mythology) The river which flows through Hades from which the souls of the dead drank so that they would forget their time on Earth.
noun:  Forgetfulness of the past; oblivion.
noun:  Dissimulation.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) Death.
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