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Parcae, lucus (4, 460): per contrarium uerba dicuntur, quando contra quam dicimus accipiuntur, ut Parcas dicimus Fata, cum non parcant, et lucum, cum non luceat.
This offers yet another example of a young woman imperilled at sea whose misfortune has been frozen into art, but as an intertext of "Le Rouet d'Omphale" Catullus 64 is most sinister once the
Parcae, the sisters of Fate, have been introduced:
The three Fates have a common Indo-European origin: the Greek Moirai, the Latin
Parcae or Fata, and the Scandinavian Nornes, Dises and Valkyries.
Parere fati discite legibus, manusque
Parcae iam date supplices, qui pendulum telluris orbem Iapeti colitis nepotes.
Old men so duely, As, sooth, the
Parcae thought him one,
The Romans identified the
Parcae, originally personifications of childbirth, with the three Greek Fates.
He turns the witches into the
Parcae and, above and beyond that, into the constitutive condition of the tyrant's own being, not into an imposition forced onto Macbeth, whom they follow.
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After sketching, as the final scene of the ekphrasis, Bacchus's cortege arriving to liberate Ariadne from her woes (249-264), the poem returns to the wedding and describes the departures of mortal celebrants and the arrivals of divine guests (265-302), until it focuses on the spinning
Parcae, who sing a prophetic wedding hymn whose stanzas proleptically recount the exploits of Achilles on the Trojan plains (303-381).
And you,
Parcae, truthful in your song, which, once ordained, a stable boundary will preserve throughout eternity, now join happy destinies to those already fulfilled.
They function not as enabling Muses but as
Parcae, controllers of destiny.
349), the union of Pluto and Proserpina is sanctioned by the
Parcae, and the divinity of Calliope herself recalls for us the theological nature of poetry which Orpheus, her mortal son, seems to wish to transfer to human concerns, such as the physical loss of his wife - as does his inset character Myrrha in her own dubious inspirations.
