Atropos

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The third fate in Greek mythology who cuts the thread of life after Clothos spins it, and Lachesis measures it Urban Dictionary

A guy whos ego is directly proportional to his anus size. Urban Dictionary

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Is atropos like those witches in that cartoon Hercules movie? ❋ Jessica Hagy (2007)

Pagan vain-glories which thought the world might last for ever, had encouragement for ambition; and, finding no atropos unto the immortality of their names, were never dampt with the necessity of oblivion. ❋ Unknown (2007)

"That's Acherontia atropos and Papilio codrus medon, " interrupted Madame Goody. ❋ Robbins, Tom (1971)

"Clotho velum retinet, Lachesis net, et atropos occit." ❋ William Thomas Fernie (N/A)

In the regions where the hideous death's-head sphinx, the acherontia atropos, abounds, they construct little pillars of wax at the entrance of the hive, so restricting the dimension as to prevent the passage of the nocturnal marauder's enormous abdomen. ❋ Maurice Maeterlinck (1905)

Huber, in his _Observations on the Natural History of Bees_, avers that the moth called the _Sphynx atropos_ invades and plunders with impunity a hive containing thousands of bees, notwithstanding the watchfulness, pugnacity, and formidable weapons of those insects. ❋ Various (1852)

If the _sphinx atropos_, or death's head moth, forces its way into the hive, the bees are well known, after having killed it with their stings, to embalm the dead body with wax -- their reason for this is, that the body was too large for them to remove through the passage by which it entered, and they would avoid the unpleasant smell of the carcass. ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

Congratulations on your sighting of a Death's Head Hawkmoth, Acherontia atropos, the moth that was featured in the book and movie Silence of the Lambs. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The insect, Acherontia atropos, is named after one of the three Greek goddesses of fate,

New year’s eve had failed to leave behind it the usual calamitous trail of fatalities, as if old atropos with her great bared teeth had decided to put aside her shears for a day. ❋ Unknown (2009)

There is in South Africa an egg-eating snake (Dasypeltis scaber), which has neither fangs nor teeth, yet it is very like the Berg adder (Clothos atropos), and when alarmed renders itself still more like by flattening out its head and darting forward with a hiss as if to strike a foe. [ ❋ Alfred Russel Wallace (1868)

[Pray] that Atropos' [scissors] are [far] away. ❋ The Professor (2004)

dude [dont] be [such a] [atropos] ❋ Anonymous (2003)

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