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|mdlsjtxt=[[μείρομαι]]<br /><b class="num">I.</b> a [[part]], [[portion]], Hom.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> a [[division]] of a [[people]], Hdt.<br /><b class="num">3.</b> a [[political]] [[party]], Lat. partes, Hdt., Eur.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> the [[part]], [[portion]], [[share]] [[which]] falls to one, in the [[distribution]] of [[booty]], Hom.; or of a [[meal]], Od.; ἡ τοῦ πατρὸς [[μοῖρα]] one's [[patrimony]], ap. Dem.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> in [[various]] phrases, οὐδ' αἰδοῦς μοῖραν ἔχουσιν has no [[part]] in [[shame]], Od.; τέσσαρας μοίρας [[ἔχον]] [[ἐμοί]] filling the [[place]] of [[four]] relations to me, Aesch.<br /><b class="num">III.</b> one's [[portion]] in [[life]], lot, [[fate]], [[destiny]], Hom., etc.; ἡ πεπρωμένη μ. Hdt.; μοῖρ' ἐστι, c. inf., 'tis one's [[fate]], Hom.; ἔσχε μοῖρ' Ἀχιλλέα [[θανεῖν]] 'twas his [[fate]] to die, Soph.;— μ. βιότοιο one's [[portion]] or [[measure]] of [[life]], Il.; [[ὑπὲρ]] μοῖραν (v. μόροσ) Il.; ἀγαθῇ μοίρᾳ by [[good]] [[luck]], Eur.; θείᾳ μοίρᾳ by [[divine]] [[providence]], Xen.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> like [[μόρος]], man's appointed [[doom]], i. e. [[death]], Hom., Aesch.:— also the [[cause]] of [[death]], Od.<br /><b class="num">IV.</b> that [[which]] is one's due, Lat. [[quod]] fas est, κατὰ μοῖραν as is [[meet]], [[rightly]], Hom.; opp. to παρὰ μοῖραν, Od.; μοῖραν νέμειν τινί to [[give]] one his due, Soph.<br /><b class="num">2.</b> [[respect]], [[esteem]], ἐν οὐδεμίᾳ μοίρῃ μεγάλῃ ἄγειν τινά to [[hold]] one in no [[great]] [[respect]], Hdt.; ἐν μείζονι μ. [[εἶναι]] Plat.<br /><b class="num">V.</b> with a gen. almost periphr., μ. φρενῶν, for φρένες, Aesch.; ἀνδρὸς μοίρᾳ προσετέθη it was accounted [[manly]], Thuc.; ἐν πολεμίου μοίρᾳ as if he were an [[enemy]], Dem.<br />B. [[Μοῖρα]], as [[prop]]. n., the [[goddess]] of [[fate]], the Roman [[Parca]], Hom.; [[later]], [[there]] were [[three]], [[Clotho]], [[Lachesis]], [[Atropos]], Hes.<br /><b class="num">II.</b> Μοῖραι, of the Furies, Aesch.

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