| E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898. |
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in Classic mythology. One of the Three Fates. She presided over birth, and drew from her distaff the thread of life, Atropos presided over death and cut the thread of-life, and Lachesis spun the fate of life between birth and death. (Greek, klótho, to draw thread from a distaff.) | 1 |
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“A France slashed asunder with Clotho-scissors and civil war”—Carlyle. (This is an erroneous allusion. It was Atropos who cut the thread.) |
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