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Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Lotus Eaters

    group · 4 works · 5 mentions · 7 anchored passages

    Lotus-eaters · the Lotus-eaters · those Lotus-eaters

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    OdysseyClassical · Greek

    A people who live on the lotus flower and offer it to strangers, causing them to forget their desire for home.

    They started at once, and went about among the Lotus-eaters, who did them no harm, but gave them to eat of the lotus, which was so delicious that those who ate of it left off caring about home, and did not even want to go back and say what had happened to them, but were for staying and munching lotus with the Lotus-eaters without thinking further of their nostos;
    chapter 9
    He began with his victory over the Kikones, and how he thence reached the fertile land of the Lotus-eaters.
    chapter 23

    The HistoriesClassical · Greek

    People living on a Libyan headland who subsist on the sweet lotus fruit and also make wine from it.

    the Lotus Eaters not only eat it, but make wine of it.
    chapter 4
    The shortest way to the Lotus Eaters ' country is from here, thirty days' journey distant.
    chapter 4
    Next to these along the coast are the Machlyes, who also use the lotus, but less than the aforesaid people.
    chapter 4

    Applied Eugenics20th Century · English

    Literary allusion to those who believe death is the inevitable end of all life, used to frame the discussion of germ-plasm immortality.

    "Death is the end of life," is the belief of many other persons than the Lotus Eaters.
    chapter 1

    RepublicClassical · Greek

    A Homeric allusion to the Lotus-eaters, invoked to characterize the pleasures the young man relapses into

    And then he returns, does he not, to those Lotus-eaters and without disguise lives openly with them.
    chapter 8