Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans . / //^>//y^. //y// / ^//y ^y/A-^-yy. MORITZ MYTHOLOGY. 33 imagination to stray into the dominion of Night, andthe world of shadows. All the before mentioned dreadful beings belong tothe class of deities, but to a particular department, (ifthe expression be admissible,) to that of the necessaryconnexion of all things. This necessary connexion of things, or necessity it-self, called by the Greeks, Moira and Heimarmene, andby the Romans, Fatum, was that unknown, mysteriousbeing, who, with in\dsible sceptre, ruled over all otherbeings. The inexora
Mythological fictions of the Greeks and Romans . / //^>//y^. //y// / ^//y ^y/A-^-yy. MORITZ MYTHOLOGY. 33 imagination to stray into the dominion of Night, andthe world of shadows. All the before mentioned dreadful beings belong tothe class of deities, but to a particular department, (ifthe expression be admissible,) to that of the necessaryconnexion of all things. This necessary connexion of things, or necessity it-self, called by the Greeks, Moira and Heimarmene, andby the Romans, Fatum, was that unknown, mysteriousbeing, who, with in\dsible sceptre, ruled over all otherbeings. The inexorable Destinies, (Parcae,) were theattendants of this being, and presided chiefly over thelife and fate of mortal men: Clotho holds the distaff^Lachesis spins the thiead of hfe, and Atrojws with thedieadflü scissors cuts it off. Although the Parcae signify that tenific power^which governs from the dark, whose decrees are passedas soon as they are conceived, and against which thereis no resistance, yet they are represented as beautifulfemales, sp
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