μόρος
Ὁ θάνατος οὐθὲν πρὸς ἡμᾶς, ἐπειδήπερ ὅταν μὲν ἡμεῖς ὦμεν, ὁ θάνατος οὐ πάρεστιν, ὅταν δὲ ὁ θάνατος παρῇ, τόθ' ἡμεῖς οὐκ ἐσμέν. → Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has come, we are not.
English (LSJ)
ὁ, (μείρομαι A)
A = μοῖρα 111.1, fate, destiny, poet. and Ion. Prose: c. inf., μόρος [ἐστὶν] ὀλέσθαι 'tis my doom to die, Il.19.421; ὑπὲρ μόρον beyond destiny, of those who by their own fault add to their destined share of misery, 20.30, Od.1.34, etc. (to be written divisim, cf. μοῖρα; but cf. ὑπέρμορα, ὑπερμόρως). II doom, death, ὅτε μιν μόρος αἰνὸς ἱκάνοι Il.18.465, cf. Pi.P.3.58, etc.; νῦν δ' . . ἦλθέ ποθεν σωτήρ, ἢ μόρον εἴπω; A.Ch.1074 (anap.); in Hdt. always of a violent death, τοιούτῳ μόρῳ ἐχρήσατο 1.117; κακὸς μόρος, θάνατός τε μόρος τε, Il.21.133, Od.9.61, etc.; μόρῳ ἀνοσίῳ, αἰσχίστῳ, Hdt.3.65, 9.17, etc.; μ. λευγαλέῳ S.Fr.785: also in pl., Heraclit.20, 25, S.Ant.1313, 1329 (lyr.). 2 corpse, αἱματηφόρους μόρους A.Th.420 (lyr.); νέος νέῳ ξὺν μόρῳ ἔθανες S.Ant.1266 (lyr.), cf. AP7.404 (Zon.). III a measure of land in Locris, Berl.Sitzb.1927.8 (v B. C.); at Mytilene, IG12(2).74 B 3. IV Μόρος personified, Hes.Th.211 (never in Trag., cf. τόνδε Μοῖρ' ἐπορσύνεν μόρον A.Ch.911).
