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|Definition=ὁ, ([[μείρομαι]] A)<br><span class="bld">A</span> = [[μοῖρα]] III.1, [[fate]], [[destiny]], ''poet.'' and Ion. Prose: c. inf., <b class="b3">μόρος [ἐστὶν] ὀλέσθαι</b> 'tis my [[doom]] to [[die]], Il.19.421; <b class="b3">ὑπὲρ μόρον</b> [[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]]).<br><span class="bld">II</span> [[doom]], [[death]], ὅτε μιν μόρος αἰνὸς [[ἱκανός|ἱκάνοι]] Il.18.465, cf. Pi.''P.''3.58, etc.; <b class="b3">νῦν δ'… ἦλθέ ποθεν σωτήρ, ἢ μόρον εἴπω</b>; A.''Ch.''1074 (anap.); in [[Herodotus|Hdt.]] always of a [[violent]] [[death]], τοιούτῳ μόρῳ ἐχρήσατο 1.117; <b class="b3">κακὸς μόρος, θάνατός τε μόρος τε</b>, Il.21.133, Od.9.61, etc.; <b class="b3">μόρῳ ἀνοσίῳ, αἰσχίστῳ</b>, [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]3.65, 9.17, etc.; μ. λευγαλέῳ [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Fragments|Fr.]]''785: also in plural, Heraclit.20, 25, S.''Ant.''1313, 1329 (lyr.).<br><span class="bld">2</span> [[corpse]], αἱματηφόρους μόρους A.''Th.''420 (lyr.); νέος νέῳ ξὺν μόρῳ ἔθανες S.''Ant.''1266 (lyr.), cf. ''AP''7.404 (Zon.).<br><span class="bld">III</span> a [[measure]] of [[land]] in [[Locris]], ''Berl.Sitzb.''1927.8 (v B. C.); at [[Mytilene]], ''IG''12(2).74 ''B'' 3.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[Μόρος]] personified, Hes.''Th.''211 (never in Trag., cf. [[τόνδε]] Μοῖρ' ἐπορσύνεν μόρον A.''Ch.''911).