μοῖρα μείρομαι a part, portion, Hom. a division of a people, Hdt. a political party, Lat. partes, Hdt., Eur. the part, portion, share which falls to one, in the distribution of booty, Hom.; or of a meal, Od.; ἡ τοῦ πατρὸς μοῖρα oneʼs patrimony, ap. Dem. in various phrases, οὐδʼ αἰδοῦς μοῖραν ἔχουσιν has no part in shame, Od.; τέσσαρας μοίρας ἔχον ἐμοί filling the place of four relations to me, Aesch. oneʼs portion in life, lot, fate, destiny, Hom., etc.; ἡ πεπρωμένη μ. Hdt.; μοῖρʼ ἐστι, c. inf., ʼtis oneʼs fate, Hom.; ἔσχε μοῖρʼ Ἀχιλλέα θανεῖν ʼtwas his fate to die, Soph.;— μ. βιότοιο oneʼs portion or measure of life, Il.; ὑπὲρ μοῖραν (v. μόρος) Il.; ἀγαθῇ μοίρᾳ by good luck, Eur.; θείᾳ μοίρᾳ by divine providence, Xen. like μόρος, manʼs appointed doom, i. e. death, Hom., Aesch.:— also the cause of death, Od. that which is oneʼs due, Lat. quod fas est, κατὰ μοῖραν as is meet, rightly, Hom.; opp. to παρὰ μοῖραν, Od.; μοῖραν νέμειν τινί to give one his due, Soph. respect, esteem, ἐν οὐδεμίᾳ μοίρῃ μεγάλῃ ἄγειν τινά to hold one in no great respect, Hdt.; ἐν μείζονι μ. εἶναι Plat. with a gen. almost periphr., μ. φρενῶν, for φρένες, Aesch.; ἀνδρὸς μοίρᾳ προσετέθη it was accounted manly, Thuc.; ἐν πολεμίου μοίρᾳ as if he were an enemy, Dem. Μοῖρα, as prop. n., the goddess of fate, the Roman Parca, Hom.; later, there were three, Clotho, Lachesis, Atropos, Hes. Μοῖραι, of the Furies, Aesch.