Lachesis
deity figure · 4 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
in the texts
Stromata
One of the Fates, whose prophetic spokesman appears in Plato's myth of the soul.
is again seen to recognize prophecy, bringing in as a prophet the spokesman of the word of Lachesis, who announces and foretells to the souls being allotted their lots.
"When all the souls had chosen their lives, as they had drawn lots, they went up in order to Lachesis;
Shield of Heracles
One of the three Fates depicted presiding over the slain in the siege scene on Heracles's shield.
Clotho and Lachesis were over them and Atropos less tall than they, a goddess of no great frame, yet superior to the others and the eldest of them.
Theogony
One of the three Fates.
Clotho, and Lachesis, and Atropos who give mortal men evil and good to have.
Republic
One of the three Fates, daughter of Necessity, associated with the past ('the things that were'), before whom souls appear to draw lots and choose lives.
And there were another three who sat round about at equal intervals, each one on her throne, the Fates, daughters of Necessity, clad in white vestments with filleted heads, Lachesis, and Clotho, and Atropos, who sang in unison with the music of the Sirens, Lachesis singing the things that were, Clotho the things that are, and Atropos the things that are to be.
But when, to conclude, all the souls had chosen their lives in the order of their lots, they were marshalled and went before Lachesis.