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κλώθω , aor.
A.“ἔκλωσα” Nonn.D.2.678, (ἐπ-) Od.3.208:—twist by spinning, spin, “λίνον” Hdt.5.12, cf.POxy.1414.5 (iii A.D.); “μίτον” Luc.Fug. 12; κ. ἄτρακτον turn it, Luc.JConf.19:—Pass., “βύσσος κεκλωσμένη” LXXEx.35.6.
2. esp. of the goddesses of fate, spin a man his thread of life or of fate, “κ. τινὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα” Arist.Mu.401b22:—poet. in Med., “ἐκλώσασθε πανάφθιτον ἦμαρ ἀοιδῷ” AP7.14 (Antip.Sid.); “ἑπτὰ δέ μοι μοῖραι . . ἐνιαυτοὺς ἐκλώσαντο” IG3.1337; τίς μοιρῶν μίτον ὔμμιν ἐκλώσατο; ib.5(1).1355 (Abia):—Pass., τὰ κλωσθέντα one's destiny, Pl.Lg.960c.
II. intr. in Act., “χυλῷ ἐνὶ κλώθοντι” Nic.Al.93 (expld. by Sch. ὡς νῆμα κλωθομένῳ), cf. 528.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Herodotus, Histories, 5.12
    • Homer, Odyssey, 3.208
    • Old Testament, Exodus, 35.6
    • Plato, Laws, 960c
    • Lucian, Juppiter confuatus, 19
    • Lucian, Fugitivi, 12
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