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lachesis
1. “Open the door, Lachesis,” Nocturna retorted
2. Lachesis closed the front door and scuttled in front of the guests
3. It had been many years since The Nexus sisters last received visitors; though not so many Lachesis had forgotten how sneaky they could be
4. “Morta! Clotho! We have callers!” Lachesis caterwauled
5. Lachesis poured out two cups of steaming black-gloop
6. Lachesis watched avidly as Morta withdrew her arm
7. Lachesis is one type of homeopathy theory used to stop pain in the left ovary or reduce
8. • Lachesis: For swollen glands in the groin and neck that are worse for
9. The spindle turned on the knees of Necessity, and a Siren stood hymning upon each circle, while Lachesis, Clotho, and Atropos, the daughters of Necessity, sat on thrones at equal intervals, singing of past, present, and future, responsive to the music of the Sirens; Clotho from time to time guiding the outer circle with a touch of her right hand; Atropos with her left hand touching and guiding the inner circles; Lachesis in turn putting forth her hand from time to time to guide both of them
10. On their arrival the pilgrims went to Lachesis, and there was an interpreter who arranged them, and taking from her knees lots, and samples of lives, got up into a pulpit and said:
11. 'Mortal souls, hear the words of Lachesis, the daughter of Necessity
12. When all the souls had chosen they went to Lachesis, who sent with each of them their genius or attendant to fulfil their lot
13. The eight together form one harmony; and round about, at equal intervals, there is another band, three in number, each sitting upon her throne: these are the Fates, daughters of Necessity, who are clothed in white robes and have chaplets upon their heads, Lachesis and Clotho and Atropos, who accompany with their voices the harmony of the sirens--Lachesis singing of the past, Clotho of the present, Atropos of the future; Clotho from time to time assisting with a touch of her right hand the revolution of the outer circle of the whorl or spindle, and Atropos with her left hand touching and guiding the inner ones, and Lachesis laying hold of either in turn, first with one hand and then with the other
14. When Er and the spirits arrived, their duty was to go at once to Lachesis; but first of all there came a prophet who arranged them in order; then he took from the knees of Lachesis lots and samples of lives, and having mounted a high pulpit, spoke as follows:
15. 'Hear the word of Lachesis, the daughter of Necessity
16. All the souls had now chosen their lives, and they went in the order of their choice to Lachesis, who sent with them the genius whom they had severally chosen, to be the guardian of their lives and the fulfiller of the choice: this genius led the souls first to Clotho, and drew them within the revolution of the spindle impelled by her hand, thus ratifying the destiny of each; and then, when they were fastened to this, carried them to Atropos, who spun the threads and made them irreversible, whence without turning round they passed beneath the throne of Necessity; and when they had all passed, they marched on in a scorching heat to the plain of Forgetfulness, which was a barren waste destitute of trees and verdure; and then towards evening they encamped by the river of Unmindfulness, whose water no vessel can hold; of this they were all obliged to drink a certain quantity, and those who were not saved by wisdom drank more than was necessary; and each one as he drank forgot all things
17. The Quanto costa gesture, the No, I couldn’t possibly, the Lachesis gesture of measuring something out to have it cut off
18. The proper name of the South American bushmaster, Lachesis muta, is loosely translated as “silent fate”, which reflects its reputation in its native South America’s equatorial forests east of the Andes, and the island of Trinidad
