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.)
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