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Atropos
is always a great word to know.
So is Iron Age. Does it mean:
| a Trojan prince who awarded the apple of discord to Aphrodite and was by her help enabled to abduct Helen |
| the present age, following the bronze age; the last and worst of the four ages of the human race, characterized by danger, corruption, and toil |
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Atropos
one of the Fates (the one who holds the shears and determines the manner of a person's death and cuts the thread), from Gk., "inflexible," lit. "not to be turned away," from a- "not" + stem of trepein "to turn" (see trope). Related form Atropa was the Gk. name for deadly nightshade.
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