μοῖρα

English (LSJ)

ας (Ion. μοῖρα, acc. μοῖραν, gen. ης), (μείρομαι)

   A part, opp. whole, τριτάτη μ. [νυκτός] Il.10.253; [ἐσθλῶν] τριτάτην . . μ. Od.4.97; μενέτω τριτάτῃ ἐνὶ μ. Il.15.195.    2 portion of land, of a country, etc., χώρης ὀλίγην ἔτι μοῖραν ἔχοντες 16.68; μ. πατρῴας γῆς διαιρετόν S.Tr.163; ἡ Περσέων μ. Hdt.1.75; [ἐς] δυώδεκα μοίρας δασάμενοι Αἴγυπτον Id.2.147; Πελοποννήσουτῶν πέντε τὰς δύο μοίρας Th.1.10.    3 division of a people, Hdt.1.146; of an army, Hdn.6.6.3; in codd. of X., freq.f.l. for μόρα.    4 political party, τὸν δῆμον πρὸς τὴν ἑωυτοῦ μ. προσεθήκατο Hdt.5.69; τριῶν δὲ μ. ἡ 'ν μέσῳ σῴζει πόλεις E.Supp. 244.    5 degree, in the astron. and geog. sense, Hipparch.1.7.11, Gem.1.6, Cleom.2.5, etc.: division of the zodiac, Arat.716, cf. 560 (pl.), Procl.Hyp.3.52.    II lot, portion or share which falls to one, esp. in the distribution of booty, ἴση μ. Il.9.318; μ. καὶ γέρας ἐσθλὸν ἔχων Od.11.534; of a meal, μοίρας ἔνεμον 8.470, cf. 14.448, etc.; μ. ἔχειν γαίης Hes.Th.413; σπλάγχνων μ. Ar.Pax1105 (hex.); τὴν τοῦ πατρὸς μοῖραν λαγχάνειν one's inheritance, patrimony, Lexap.D.43.51, cf. AP11.382.22 (Agath.).    2 generally, part, lot, οὐδ' αἰδοῦς μ. ἔχουσιν have no part in shame, Od.20.171; εὐθυμίης μείζω μ. μεθέξει Democr.258, cf. 263; ἐν παντὶ παντὸς μ. ἔνεστι Anaxag.11, cf. 6; μ. ἔχειν ἀχέων A.Th.945 (lyr.); μ. Ἀφροδίτας Id.Supp.1041 (lyr.); ἔχουσι μ. οὐκ εὐπέμπελον an office, Id.Eu.476; τέσσαρας μ. ἔχον ἐμοί filling the place of four relations to me, Id.Ch.238; μ. ἡδονῆς πορεῖν Id.Pr.631; κατὰ τὴν ἰδίαν ἑκάστου μ., pro virili parte, Lycurg.64; οὐκ ἐλαχίστην συμβάλλεσθαι μ. πρός τι Plu.2.9f, cf. Arist.Ath.19.    4    III one's portion in life, lot, destiny, ἐπὶ γάρ τοι ἑκάστῳ μοῖραν ἔθηκαν ἀθάνατοι Od.19.592, etc.; μ. βροτῶν A.Eu.105; mostly of ill fortune, but also of good, e. g. opp. ἀμμορίη, Od.20.76; ἡ πεπρωμένη μ. Hdt.1.91; ἐξιστορῆσαι μ. A.Th.506, cf. Ag.1314, etc.; μ. (sc. ἐστι) c. inf., 'tis one's fate, οὐ γάρ τοι πρὶν μ. φίλους ἰδέειν Od.4.475; οὐ γάρ πώ τοι μ. θανεῖν Il.7.52, cf. 15.117: c. acc. et inf., εἰ μ. . . δαμῆναι πάντας ὁμῶς 17.421, cf. 16.434; ἔσχε μοῖρ' Ἀχιλλέα θανεῖν S.Ph.331; ὡς αὐτὸν ἥξοι μ. πρὸς παιδὸς θανεῖν Id.OT713; εἴ μοι ξυνείη φέροντι μοῖρα ib.863 (lyr.); μ. βιότοιο one's portion or measure of life, Il.4.170 (as v. l. for πότμον) ; ὑπὲρ μοῖραν (v. μόρος) Il.20.336; ἀγαθᾷ μοίρᾳ by good luck, E.Ion153 (lyr.); θείᾳ μοίρᾳ by divine providence, X.Mem.2.3.18; κατά τινα θείαν μ. Arist.EN1099b10, cf. Pl. Men.99e, Ap.33c; opp. παρὰ μοῖραν Δίος Alc.Supp.14.10.    2 like μόρος, man's appointed doom, i.e. death, Il.6.488, Od.11.560; in full, θάνατος καὶ μ. Il.17.672, etc.; μ. ὀλοή . . θανάτοιο Od.2.100; θανάτου μ. A.Pers.917, Ag.1462 (both anap.); πρὸ μοίρας before the appointed time, S.Fr.686, Isoc.11.8; ἐξέπλησε μ. τὴν ἑωυτοῦ Hdt.4.164,3.142, cf. 1.91; τῇ σεωυτοῦ μ. περίεις ib.121; also, the cause of death, Od. 21.24.    IV that which is meet and right, in Hom. mostly in phrase κατὰ μοῖραν in order, rightly, Il.16.367; κατὰ μ. ἔειπες 1.286, al.; ἐν μοίρῃ πάντα διίκεο 19.186, cf. Od.22.54, Pl.Lg.775c, 958d; opp. παρὰ μοῖραν Od.14.509; ἔχει μ. it is meet and right, E.Hipp.988.    2 respect, esteem, οὐκ ἔστιν ὅτῳ μείζονα μ. νείμαιμ' ἤ σοι A.Pr.294 (anap.), cf. S.Tr.1239; ἐν οὐδεμιῇ μοίρῃ μεγάλῃ ἄγειν τινά hold one in no great respect, Hdt.2.172; ἐν μείζονι μ. εἶναι Pl.Cri.51b; ἀτιμοτάτῃ ἐνὶ μ. Theoc.14.49; μεγάλην μ. καὶ τιμὴν ἔχει Pl.Cra.398b; κατατιθέναι τι ἐν μοίραις ἐλάττοσι Id.Lg.923b; τοὺς θεοὺς μοίραις ποεῖσθε μηδαμῶς S. OC278 is prob. corrupt.    V c. gen. almost periphr., ἐν τῇ τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ μοίρᾳ ἐκεῖνό ἐστι is a good, of the order of the good, Pl.Phlb. 54c; ἄγειν ἢ φέρειν ἐν πολεμίου μ. as if an enemy, D.23.61; νόστοιο μ. for νόστος, Pi.P.4.196; ὡς ἐν παιδιᾶς μοίρᾳ playfully, Pl.Lg.656b; ὡς ἐν φαρμάκου μ. Plu.2.6e; ὥσπερ ἐν προσθήκης μ. Luc.Zeux.2; μέτοχος εἶναι τῆς τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ μοίρας, i. e. τοῦ ἀγαθοῦ, Pl.Phlb.60b; ἡ φιλοσόφου μ. Id.Ep.329b; ἡ τελειότης τἀγαθοῦ μ. τίς ἐστιν Procl.Inst.25; θείας μ. μετέχειν, i. e. τοῦ θείου, Pl.Prt.322a, cf. Phdr.230a; τὸ ἐμπλήκτως ὀξὺ ἀνδρὸς μοίρᾳ προσετέθη was accounted manly, Th.3.82.    B Μοῖρα, as pr. n., the goddess of fate, Hom. always (exc. Il. 24.49) in sg., Il.24.209, al., cf. Orph.Fr.33, etc.: three first in Hes. Th.905, etc.; as the goddess of death, Il.4.517, 18.119: generally of evil, 5.613; ἐγὼ δ' οὐκ αἴτιός εἰμι ἀλλὰ Ζεὺς καὶ M. καὶ ἠεροφοῖτις Ἐρινύς 19.87: with epithets, M. κραταιή, ὀλοή, 5.629, 21.83; κακή 13.602; δυσώνυμος 12.116:—Trag. use sts. sg., A.Ag.130, Ch.910, etc.: sts. pl., Id.Pr.516,895, Ch.306, etc.; of the Furies, Id.Eu.172: later as objects of worship, SIG1044.8 (Halic., iv/iii B. C.).—In the phrases θεοῦ μ. Od.11.292, μ. θεῶν 3.269, μοῖρα is Appellat., = destiny.