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|Full diacritics=κλώθω
|Medium diacritics=κλώθω
|Low diacritics=κλώθω
|Capitals=ΚΛΩΘΩ
|Transliteration A=klṓthō
|Transliteration B=klōthō
|Transliteration C=klotho
|Beta Code=klw/qw
|Definition=aor. <span class="sense"><p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> ἔκλωσα <span class="bibl">Nonn.<span class="title">D.</span>2.678</span>, (<b class="b3">ἐπ</b>-) <span class="bibl">Od.3.208</span>:—<b class="b2">twist by spinning, spin</b>, λίνον <span class="bibl">Hdt.5.12</span>, cf.<span class="bibl"><span class="title">POxy.</span>1414.5</span> (iii A.D.); μίτον <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Fug.</span> 12</span>; <b class="b3">κ. ἄτρακτον</b> <b class="b2">turn</b> it, <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">JConf.</span>19</span>:—Pass., βύσσος κεκλωσμένη <span class="bibl">LXX<span class="title">Ex.</span>35.6</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> esp. of the goddesses of fate, <b class="b2">spin</b> a man his thread of life or of fate, κ. τινὶ τὰ οἰκεῖα <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">Mu.</span>401b22</span>:—poet. in Med., ἐκλώσασθε πανάφθιτον ἦμαρ ἀοιδῷ <span class="title">AP</span>7.14 (Antip.Sid.); ἑπτὰ δέ μοι μοῖραι . . ἐνιαυτοὺς ἐκλώσαντο <span class="title">IG</span>3.1337; <b class="b3">τίς μοιρῶν μίτον ὔμμιν ἐκλώσατο</b>; ib.5(1).1355 (Abia):—Pass., <b class="b3">τὰ κλωσθέντα</b> <b class="b2">one's destiny</b>, <span class="bibl">Pl.<span class="title">Lg.</span>960c</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> intr. in Act., χυλῷ ἐνὶ κλώθοντι <span class="bibl">Nic.<span class="title">Al.</span>93</span> (expld. by Sch. <b class="b3">ὡς νῆμα κλωθομένῳ</b>), cf. <span class="bibl">528</span>.</span>
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|ptext=[[https://www.translatum.gr/images/pape/pape-01-1458.png Seite 1458]] <b class="b2">spinnen</b>; [[λίνον]] Her. 5, 12; μίτον Luc. fugit. 12; auch von den Schicksalsgöttinnen, dem Menschen seinen Lebensfaden zuspinnen, im med., πῶς οὐκ ἐκλώσασθε πανάφθιτον [[ἦμαρ]] ἀοιδῷ Antip. Sil. 70 (VII, 14); dah. τὰ κλωσθέντα, Plat. Legg. XII, 960 c, wie τὰ κεκλωσμένα, das Zugesponnene, Verhängte, Philostr. – Bei Nic. Al. 93 von zähem, sich in Fäden ziehendem Safte. – Adj. verb. [[κλωστός]], Eur. Troad. 537.
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