Λάχεσις
Κύριε, βοήθησον τὸν δοῦλον σου Νῖλον κτλ. → Lord, help your slave Nilos ... (mosaic inscription from 4th-cent. church in the Negev)
English (LSJ)
[ᾰ], εως, Ion. ιος, ἡ, (λαχεῖν) Lachesis, one of the three Fates,
A Disposer of lots, Hes.Th.218, Sc.258, Pi.O.7.64, etc.; as the goddess of distribution, Plu.2.644a, cf. Arist.Mu.401b20. II as Appellat., lot, destiny, Bacis ap. Hdt.9.43: pl., Μοιρῶν Λαχέσεων IG 5(1).602.8 (Sparta, iii A.D.).
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
Λάχεσις: -εως, Ἰων. ιος, ἡ: (λᾰχεῖν)· - μία τῶν τριῶν Μοιρῶν, ἡ διαθέτουσα τοὺς κλήρους τῶν ἀνθρώπων, Ἡσ. Θ. 218, Ἀσπ. Ἡρακλ. 258, Πινδ. Ο. 7. 118, κτλ.· ὡς θεότης τῆς διανομῆς, Πλούτ. 2. 644Α, πρβλ. Ἀριστ. π. Κόσμ. 7, 6· ἴδε ἐν λέξ. Κλωθώ. ΙΙ. ὡς προσηγορ., κλῆρος, μοῖρα, προορισμός, Βάκις παρ’ Ἡροδ. 9. 43· καὶ ἐν τῷ πληθ. Μοιρῶν λαχέσεων Συλλ. Ἐπιγρ. 1444.
