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Lotos-eater

created by Webster 1913

(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 0:57:33

Lo"tus-eat`er (?), Lo"tos-eat`er (?), n. Class. Myth.

One who ate the fruit or leaf of the lotus, and, as a consequence, gave himself up to indolence and daydreams; one of the Lotophagi.

The mild-eyed melancholy Lotos-eaters. Tennyson.

 

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