Land of the Lotophagi

Land of the Lotophagi

African land where eating lotos fruit produced amnesia and indolence. [Gk. Lit.: Odyssey; Br. Lit.: “The Lotos-Eaters” in Norton, 733–736]

See: Paradise

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