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It's less a lethal than a Lethean weapon, ie something resembling the river Lethe's mind-numbing waters which induce eternal forgetfulness of everything but better films on the same subject.

From The Guardian • May 22, 2010

O Echo, Echo, on some other day, From isles Lethean, sigh to us—O sigh!

From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by Robertson, M. (Margaret)

O Echo, Echo, from some sombre isle, Unknown, Lethean, sigh to us—O sigh!

From Keats: Poems Published in 1820 by Robertson, M. (Margaret)

The poppy, from its somniferous effects, has been made symbolic of sleep and oblivion; hence Virgil calls it the Lethean poppy, whilst our old pastoral poet, William Browne, speaks of it as "sleep-bringing poppy."

From The Folk-lore of Plants by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)

To hear, to see, to live, was on that morn Lethean joy.

From The Radicalism of Shelley and Its Sources by MacDonald, Daniel J.