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μόρος , , (μείρομαι A)
A.= μοῖρα 111.1, fate, destiny, poet. and Ion. Prose: c. inf., μόρος [ἐστὶν] ὀλέσθαι 'tis my doom to die, Il.19.421; ὑπὲρ μόρον beyond destiny, of those who by their own fault add to their destined share of misery, 20.30, Od.1.34, etc. (to be written divisim, cf. μοῖρα; but cf. ὑπέρμορα, ὑπερμόρως).
2. corpse, “αἱματηφόρους μόρουςA.Th.420 (lyr.); “νέος νέῳ ξὺν μόρῳ ἔθανεςS.Ant.1266 (lyr.), cf. AP7.404 (Zon.).
III. a measure of land in Locris, Berl.Sitzb.1927.8 (v B. C.); at Mytilene, IG12(2).74 B 3.
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