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Lachesis

noun
1.
The Greek goddess of fate who determines the length of the thread of life.





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"Lachesis" Quotes from Famous Books



... names of the Fates? Lachesis, the giver of the lots, is the first of them; Clotho, the spinster, the second; Atropos, the unchanging one, is the third and last, who makes the threads of the web irreversible. And we too want to make our laws irreversible, for the unchangeable quality ...
— Laws • Plato


Words linked to "Lachesis" :   Greek deity, Moirae, Moirai


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