god
the Fates
also: Parcae
The Parcae, the three spinning sisters who measure out each life and never wind the thread back; their distaffs are unrecallable.
Reading notes
- The Pumpkinification of the Divine Claudius §3 Fates
The three Parcae who spin, measure, and cut each mortal's thread of life; Apollo begs them not to cut Nero's short.
- Hercules (Mad) §182 the hard sisters
The Fates (Parcae), who spin out each life and never wind the thread back.
- Hercules on Oeta §1056 the Fates spin their threads
The Parcae (Fates), who spin, measure, and cut the thread of every life; their lesson is that all that is born can die.