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Atropos

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Atropos

In Greek mythology, the eldest of the Fates, who cut the thread of human life. Her attributes are scissors, scales, or a sundial.



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Also she bare the Destinies and ruthless avenging Fates, Clotho and Lachesis and Atropos (10), who give men at their birth both evil and good to have, and they pursue the transgressions of men and of gods: and these goddesses never cease from their dread anger until they punish the sinner with a sore penalty.
Collection Of Hesiod, Homer and Homerica by Homer View in context
We have constructed a fate, an Atropos, that never turns aside.
Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context
Van Helsing nodded to him as he whispered to me unconsciously, "The Acherontia Atropos of the Sphinges, what you call the `Death's-head Moth'?
Dracula by Stoker, Bram View in context
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