Clotho
ἢν μή τις ὥσπερ σφηκιὰν βλίττῃ με κἀρεθίζῃ → may no one squeeze me and tease me like a wasp | may no one smoke me and tease me like a wasp | but if anyone annoys me and rifles my nest, they'll find a wasp inside | still if you wake a wasps' nest then of wasps you must beware
English > Greek (Woodhouse)
Κλωθώ, -οῦς, ἡ.
Latin > English (Lewis & Short)
Clōthō: (apparently used only in nom. and acc.), = Κλωθώ,
I the spinner, among the three Parcœ, Ov. F. 6, 757; id. Ib. 241; Juv. 9, 135: ferrea, Stat. Th. 3, 556.—
II Trop. = vita, life: longa, Sil. 5, 404.
Latin > French (Gaffiot 2016)
Clōthō,¹³ ūs, f. (Κλωθώ), l’une des trois Parques : Sil. 5, 404.
Latin > German (Georges)
Clōthō (Clōtō), ūs, f. (Κλωθώ), die Spinnende, eine der Parzen, die den Lebensfaden spinnt, Ov. fast. 6, 757. Ov. Ib. 242. Stat. Theb. 3, 556: neben Lachesis, Iuven. 9, 135. Bormann Uned. Inschrn. no. 10, 5. p. 9 (wo Cloto): neben Lachesis u. Atropos, Hygin. fab. in. Apul. de mund. 38. Mythogr. Lat. 1, 110. Eulog. in Cic. somn. Scip. p. 403, 13 B. Epit. Iliad. 895 sq. (wo Atropos, Clotho, Lachesis nebeneinander). – übtr., C. longa, langes Leben, Sil. 5, 404.
