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in Classic mythology. One of the Three Fates. She presided over birth, and drew from her distaff the thread of life, Atropos presided over death and cut the thread of-life, and Lachesis spun the fate of life between birth and death. (Greek, klótho, to draw thread from a distaff.)
“A France slashed asunder with Clotho-scissors and civil war”—Carlyle. (This is an erroneous allusion. It was Atropos who cut the thread.)
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.
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