" It was Atropos who chose the mechanism of death and ended the life of each mortal by cutting their thread with her " abhorred shears.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, Atropos and her sisters ( Clotho and Lachesis ) were the daughters of Nyx ( Night ), though later in the same work ( ll.

Thanatos was loosely associated with the three Moirai ( for Hesiod, also daughters of Night ), particularly Atropos, who was a goddess of death in her own right.

According to Hesiod's Theogony, she and her sisters ( Atropos and Clotho ) are the daughters of Nyx ( Night ) and Erebus.

The genus name " atropa " comes from Atropos, one of the three Fates in Greek mythology, and the name " bella donna " is derived from Italian and means " beautiful woman " because the herb was used in eye-drops by women to dilate the pupils of the eyes to make them appear seductive.

The name Atropa is thought to be derived from that of the Greek goddess Atropos, one of the three Greek fates or destinies who would determine the course of a man's life by the weaving of threads that symbolized his birth, the events in his life and finally his death ; with Atropos cutting these threads to mark the last of these.

Ralph and Lois name the two " good " doctors Clotho and Lachesis, while the third " bad " doctor is called Atropos ; they are all named after the Moirai of mythology.

Atropa is named after the Greek Fate, Atropos, who cut the thread of life.

Clotho carries a spindle or a roll ( the book of fate ), Lachesis a staff with which she points to the horoscope on a globe, and Atropos ( Aisa ) a scroll, a wax tablet, a sundial, a pair of scales, or a cutting instrument.

In 1953, C. S. Forester published Hornblower and the Atropos, a historical novel set during the Napoleonic Wars, in which Horatio Hornblower, a captain in the Royal Navy, travels along the canal to London.

The genus is named after Άτροπος ( Atropos ) of the Three Fates, the one which cut the life thread.

However, Atropos has his revenge by showing Ralph a glimpse of the not-too-distant future in which he claims the life of the innocent Natalie Deepneau.

Here it is said that sometimes the soul of a traitor falls to Hell before Atropos cuts the thread, and their body is taken over by a fiend.

Meleager is depicted under the wings of another Etruscan goddess of fate, identified by inscription as Athrpa, the counterpart of the Greek fate goddess Atropos who is one of the three Moirai.

Upon unloading the treasure and refitting, his ship, HMS Atropos, is given to the King of the Two Sicilies for diplomatic reasons, much to his disappointment.

273 Atropos is a typical Main belt asteroid.

Atropos is a UK-based journal for specialists in Lepidoptera and Odonata.

When Meleager was born from them, suddenly in the palace the Fates, Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, appeared.

They thus sang his fate: Clotho said that he would be noble, Lachesis that he would be brave, but Atropos looking at a brand burning on the hearth and said, “ He will live only as long as this brand remains unconsumed .” When Althaea, the mother, heard this, she leaped from the bed, put out the fatal brand, and buried it in the midst of the palace, so that it shouldn ’ t be destroyed by fire.

The Moirai | three Fates, Clotho, Lachesis ( mythology ) | Lachesis and Atropos, who spin, draw out and cut the thread of life, represent Death in this tapestry, as they triumph over the fallen body of Chastity.

The second wife was Themis, who bore the three Horae ( Hours ): Eunomia ( Order ), Dikē ( Justice ), Eirene ( Peace ); and the three Moirai ( Fates ): Clotho ( Spinner ), Lachesis ( Alotter ), Atropos ( Unturned ), as well as Tyche.

* Atropos (, Greek – " inexorable " or " inevitable ", literally " unturning ", sometimes called Aisa ) was the cutter of the thread of life.

Lachesis sings the things that were, Clotho the things that are, and Atropos the things that are to be.

Clotho was the daughter of Zeus and Themis, and sister to Lachesis and Atropos, according to Greek mythology.

Atropos or Aisa (; " without turn "), in Greek mythology, was one of the three Moirai, goddesses of fate and destiny.

Atropos or Aisa was the oldest of the Three Fates, and was known as the " inflexible " or " inevitable.

* Morta ( Greek Atropos ), who cut the thread of life and chose the manner of a person's death.

* Amanda Plummer, Carole Shelley and Paddi Edwards as Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos, the three Fates who predict Hades ' attempt to conquer Olympus.

Even here Xenocrates's preference for symbolic modes of sensualising or denoting appears: he connected the above three stages of knowledge with the three Fates: Atropos, Clotho, and Lachesis.

Freyja lends Loki her falcon cloak to search for it ; but upon returning, Loki tells Freyja that Thrymr has hidden the hammer and demanded to marry her in return.

Isis ' maternal grandmother, Yolanda, a feisty Texan woman, appears and lends her support to Isis ' quest.

Anna Pavlova lends her name to a popular variety of American ice-cream.

She lends her name to the moon Jupiter XLI, also called Aoede, which orbits the planet Jupiter.

She lends her name to the word " terpsichorean " which means " of or relating to dance ".

" Whether it's a flighty old tune like ' I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby ' ... a schmaltzy German love song, ' Das Lied Ist Aus ' or a French one ' La Vie en Rose ', she lends each an air of the aristocrat, yet she never patronises ... A folk song, ' Go ' Way From My Window ' has never been sung with such passion, and in her hands ' Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

One puppy, Cadpig, is too weak to walk the long distance from Suffolk to London so Tommy, the Colonel's two year old pet, lends her a toy carriage.

Niamh lends him her horse, warning him never to dismount, and he travels back to Ireland.

When they rescue a wealthy elderly man from choking on his food, he lends her his chauffeur Shohei, who has a masterful way with noodles.

Legio XX Valeria Victrix lends its name to the character Valeria Matuchek in Poul Anderson's Operation Chaos and its sequel Operation Luna ; her mother is said to describe this legion as the last to leave Britain -- " the last that stood aequel gainst Chaos.

To further her interest in character abstraction Varda used two professional actors, Silvia Monfort and Philippe Noiret combined with the residents of La Pointe Courte to provide a realistic element that lends itself to a documentary aesthetic, inspired by Neo-realism.

Piper is proven to be a skilled chef, a talent which lends itself to her potion-making.

Alydon gives Susan a secondary drug supply to use in case the Daleks deviate from their promise and also lends her his plastic cape.

A review in The Hindu said about her performance, " Preity Zinta is her usual cherubic self and lends colour to the otherwise serious proceedings ".

He lends her the money, and the Haley boys leave home.

" She is not, in this instance, " literally " run off her feet, and neither would Joyce have thought so ; rather, the narrative lends itself to a misuse of language typical of the character being described.

As Esme's only dress is ruined, the Landlady lends her uncle's clown costume ( which are the only clothes that fit her )— barrel like blue trousers held up with trouser braces that jangle and squeak as she walks and a shirt with a large red joke bow tie — and set off across the river.

Though Randall becomes more formidable as the movie progresses, Nicholson sustains his low-key, self-effacing style, and somehow the more he keeps his natural dynamism in check, the more his charisma increases ... As the world-weary Laura, Pfeiffer doesn't have nearly as much to work with, and so, ultimately, she lends more of her beauty than she does her talent.

Lucia lends Luc her summer dress so that he won't have to return home completely naked.

Candy Dulfer is also the comic foil for this tour though she plays saxophone and lends her vocal talents.