μῆρα
τὸ πεπρωμένον φυγεῖν ἀδύνατον → you can't escape your destiny | there is no escaping from destiny | it's impossible to escape from what is destined | it is impossible to escape from what is destined | what is fated is impossible to escape | if you're born to be hanged, then you'll never be drowned | he that is born to be hanged shall never be drowned | if you are born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned | if you're born to be hanged then you'll never be drowned| you can't outrun your fate | you cannot outrun your fate | you can't stop fate | that's the way the cookie crumbles
English (LSJ)
τά, old pl. of
A μηρός 2, = μηρία, Il.1.464, al., B.Fr.3.4, Ar.Pax 1088; Ποσειδάωνι . . πόλλ' ἐπὶ μῆρ' ἔθεμεν Od.3.179.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
μῆρα: τά, σπανιώτερος Ὁμηρ. τύπος ἀντὶ μηρία, οὐχὶ ἀνώμαλος πληθ. τοῦ μηρός, (ἴδε μηρίον), Ἰλ. Α. 464., Β. 427, κτλ., οὕτως Ἀριστοφ. Εἰρ. 1088, 1092.
