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ATROPOS

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 877 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ATROPOS  , in See also:

Greek See also:mythology, the eldest of the three Fates (see See also:FATE) . Her name, the " Unalterable " (d- privative, and -rpir&v, to turn), indicates her See also:function, that of rendering the decisions of her sisters irreversible or immutable . Atropos is most frequently represented with scales, a See also:sun-See also:dial or a cutting See also:instrument, the " abhorred See also:shears," with which she slits the thin-spun See also:thread of See also:life that has been placed on the spindle by Clotho and See also:drawn off by Lachesis .

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