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Λάχεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: Λάχεσις Λάχεσεως

Structure: Λαχεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: laxei=n

Sense

  1. Lachesis, disposer of lots
  2. lot, destiny

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οὐ τρεῖσ αἱ Μοῖραί εἰσι, Κλωθὼ καὶ Λάχεσισ, οἶμαι, καὶ Ἄτροποσ; (Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, (no name) 2:8)
  • τοῦτο γὰρ ἐκεῖ ἡ Λάχεσισ ἐργάζεται, ἡ τῆσ Ἀνάγκησ ἀληθῶσ θυγάτηρ, ὡσ καὶ πρότερον παρελάβομεν καὶ ὕστερον ἔτι μᾶλλον εἰσόμεθ’ ἐν τοῖσ κατὰ σχολὴν λόγοισ. (Plutarch, De fato, section 1 4:1)
  • μοῖραν καὶ εἰσ τὴν πλανᾶσθαι νομιζομένην, καὶ τρίτην τὴν ὑπουράνιον τὴν περὶ γῆν ὑπάρχουσαν ὧν μὲν ἀνωτάτω Κλωθὼ προσαγορεύεται, ἡ δὲ μετ’ αὐτὴν Ἄτροποσ, ἡ κατωτάτω δ’ αὖ Λάχεσισ, δεχομένη μὲν τὰσ οὐρανίασ τῶν ἀδελφῶν ἐνεργείασ, συμπλέκουσα δὲ καὶ διαδιδοῦσα ταύτασ εἰσ τὰ ἐπ’ αὐτῆσ τεταγμένα τὰ ἐπίγεια. (Plutarch, De fato, section 2 1:1)
  • "τῶν δὲ συνδέσμων ἑκάστου Μοῖρα κλειδοῦχοσ Ἀνάγκησ θυγάτηρ κάθηται, τοῦ μὲν πρώτου Ἄτροποσ τοῦ δὲ δευτέρου Κλωθώ, τοῦ δὲ πρὸσ σελήνην Λάχεσισ, περὶ ἣν ἡ καμπὴ τῆσ γενέσεωσ. (Plutarch, De genio Socratis, section 2225)
  • "ἐσχάτη δὲ συνεφάπτεται περὶ γῆν ἡ Λάχεσισ, ᾗ πλεῖστον τύχησ μέτεστι. (Plutarch, De faciae quae in orbe lunae apparet, section 3031)
  • Κλωθὼ καὶ Λάχεσίσ σφιν ἐφέστασαν· (Hesiod, Shield of Heracles, Book Sh. 25:7)

Synonyms

  1. lot

Related

Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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