Clotho Sentence Examples

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  • Hesiod has three Fates (Moipac), daughters of Night, Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos.

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  • Atropos is most frequently represented with scales, a sun-dial or a cutting instrument, the "abhorred shears," with which she slits the thin-spun thread of life that has been placed on the spindle by Clotho and drawn off by Lachesis.

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  • Even here the mythological tendency displays itself - vow-6,, and alcrenra being severally committed to Atropos, Lachesis and Clotho.

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  • The sluggish puff-adder (Clotho arietans) is common and very dangerous.

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