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Lotos-eater   Listen
noun
Lotos-eater, Lotus-eater  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."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Lotos-eater" Quotes from Famous Books



... calm, At noontide beneath the lee; And the monstrous narwhale swalloweth His foam-fountains in the sea. Long enough the wine-dark wave our weary bark did carry. This is lovelier and sweeter, Men of Ithaca, this is meeter, In the hollow rosy vale to tarry, Like a dreamy Lotos-eater, a delirious Lotos-eater! We will eat the Lotos, sweet As the yellow honeycomb, In the valley some, and some On the ancient heights divine; And no more roam, On the loud hoar foam, To the melancholy home At the limit of the brine, The little isle of Ithaca, beneath the day's decline. We'll lift ...
— The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson • Tennyson



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