EncyclopediaAtroposAtropos (ă'trupos") [key]: see Fates. The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2007, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved. More on Atropos from Fact Monster:
- Fates - Fates Fates, in Greek religion and mythology, three goddesses who controlled human lives; also ...
- Lachesis - Lachesis [Lak'-e-sis ]. The Fate who spins life's thread, working into the woof the sundry ...
- Clotho - Clotho in Classic mythology One of the Three Fates. She presided over birth, and drew from her ...
- Ultimum Vale - Ultimum Vale (Latin). A finishing stroke, a final coup. “Atropos, cutting off the thread of ...
- Cut Short - Cut Short is to shorten. “Cut short all intermission” (Macbeth, iv. 3). To cut it short ...
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