The Fate who spins life’s thread, working into the woof the sundry events destined to occur. Clotho held the distaff, and Atrŏpos cutoff the thread when life was to be ended. (Greek, klôtho, to drawthread from a distaff; Lachesis from lagchāno, to assign by lot; and Atropos = inflexible.)
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