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You say well, Stranger; but explain to us yet more clearly the purport of your last observation.Athenian
O Clinias, many of the sayings of old time have been nobly uttered, and of these not the least, I may say, are the titles given to the Fates.Clinias
What titles, pray?Athenian
That the first of them is Lachesis, the second Clotho, and Atropos the savior-third 1—she that bestows on the dooms ratified by Clotho the quality of irreversibility.
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