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Parcae

noun
1.
Any of the three Roman goddesses of fate or destiny; identified with the Greek Moirai and similar to the Norse Norns.





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... their charge, these venerable ladies kept spinning yarn with that elsewhere forgotten contrivance, the distaff; and so wrinkled and stern looking were they, that you might have taken them for the Parcae, spinning the threads of human destiny. In contrast with their great-grandmothers were the children, leading goats of shaggy beard, tied by the horns, and letting them browse on branch and shrub. It is the fashion of Italy to add the petty ...
— The Marble Faun, Volume II. - The Romance of Monte Beni • Nathaniel Hawthorne


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