The Fates

Reading notes

• The Loves §2.6 the Fate

  One of the three Parcae who spin out each life's thread; she stands by the dying parrot 'with empty distaff.'

• The Heroides §11 fate

  The Parcae (Fates), under a 'better' allotment of whom Canace bids her sisters marry happily.

• The Heroides §12 the sisters

  The Parcae (Fates), who spin and cut the threads of mortal lives; Medea wishes they had ended hers in time.

• The Heroides §15 the Sisters

  The Fates (Parcae), who may have spun Sappho a 'soft' thread of life prone to love.

• Letters from the Black Sea §3.7 my Parca

  The Parcae (Fates), spinners of the thread of life; Ovid bids his to run out to its end by the same harsh course on which it began.

• The Festivals §6.21 Clotho

  One of the three Fates, who spins the thread of life and resents its being held back.

• The Festivals §6.29 the Fates

  The three Parcae (Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos), whose number of names equals the days then left in June.

• Metamorphoses §2.31 the three goddesses

  The Fates (Parcae), who spin and cut the thread of each life.

• Metamorphoses §8.213 three sisters

  The three Fates (Parcae), who at Meleager's birth bound his life to a burning brand.