Parcae

American  

[pahr-see, -kahy] / ˈpɑr si, -kaɪ /

plural noun

Parca singular

1. the three Fates of ancient Rome, developed out of the goddess Parca by identification with the Moerae of Greek mythology.

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Parcae British  

/ ˈpɑːsiː /

plural noun

1. Greek counterparts: the Moirai.  the Roman goddesses of fate

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Example Sentences

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Parcae Parca

Therein I hear the Parcae reel The threads of man at their humming wheel, The threads of life and power and pain, So sweet and mournful falls the strain.

From Poems Household Edition by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

In M. Auguste Dozon's collection of Albanian stories, there is one called "The sold child," which bears directly on the survival of the Parcae.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

It would seem as if, at the very birth of most of our modern poems,        'The conscious Parcae threw     Upon their roseate lips a Stygian hue.'

From Obiter Dicta by Birrell, Augustine

Jupiter answers him: If you will renounce Rome, the Parcae shall spin for you different fates, you shall become wise, you shall be happy. sextus—Why must I renounce the hope of a crown?

From Theodicy Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil by Huggard, E.M.

They both accept Destiny,—the Parcae or the Norns spin the threads of life,—and yet both admit a sphere of human choice.

From Thomas Carlyle by Nichol, John

What fortunate, or what disastrous bird Omen'd my fate? which Parca winds my yarn, That I alone find Pity deaf as asp, And wretched live who happy hoped to be?

From The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch by Campbell, Thomas

It shall be my resolve, lastingly, I hope, to endure until it pleases the implacable Parca: to break the thread.

From Beethoven, the Man and the Artist, as Revealed in His Own Words by Krehbiel, Henry Edward

Perhaps its citizens are to be envied rather than pitied:     "bene est cui deus obtulit Parca, quod satis est, manu."

From A Cotswold Village by Gibbs, J. Arthur

Innumerable things the little lupa learned at the side of the old woman, bony and ugly as a Parca!

From Sónnica by Blasco Ibáñez, Vicente