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Originally appearing in Volume V10, Page 199 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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FATE , in See also:

Roman See also:mythology, the spoken word (fatum) of See also:Jupiter, the unalterable will of See also:heaven. The plural (Fata, the Fates) was used for the " destinies " of individuals or cities, and then for the three goddesses who controlled them. Thus, Fata Scribunda were the goddesses who wrote down a See also:man's destiny at his See also:birth. In this connexion, however, Fata may be singular, the masculine and feminine Fatus, Fata, being the usual forms in popular and ceremonial See also:language. The Fates were also called Parcae, the attributes of both being the same as those of the See also:Greek Moerae.

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