nepenthe

Chesney was silent for a second, gazing at the little transparent amphoræ that held Nepenthe.

I drank of the nepenthe cup, and in it my past was washed out and my soul was drowned.'

Nepenthe, an imaginary goddess, the allayer of pain and the soother of sorrows, or the impersonation of stern retributive justice.

Nepenthe was an Egyptian drug that dispelled the memory of whatever is sad.