death-parched

Updated: June 1, 2025

Anacreon's drinking-cup was placed in apt juxtaposition with one of Tom Moore's wine-glasses and Circe's magic bowl. These were symbols of luxury and riot; but near them stood the cup whence Socrates drank his hemlock, and that which Sir Philip Sidney put from his death-parched lips to bestow the draught upon a dying soldier.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - A Virtuoso's Collection (From "Mosses from an Old Manse")