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Lewis & Short Latin Dictionary New Search e-mail us | copyright statement. If you would not be reading Latin without access to these on-line texts and lexicon, please tell us about it. This page was made possible by support from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. Previous: parazonium parca Next: parce Corpus Words Max. Inst. Freq./10K Min. Inst. Freq./10K Latin Texts 3405121 0 0 0 0 Click on a number in the Max. Inst. column to search for this word in that group of texts. Click on a number in the Freq./10K column for a more detailed frequency table. Parca, ae, f. [root plek-; cf. plekô, plokê; Lat. plecto, plico], one of the goddesses of Fate, whose Latin names are Nona, Decuma, and Morta, Caesell. Vindex ap. Gell. 3, 16, 11 (their Greek names are Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos, Hyg. Fab. 171).--In sing.: Parca non mendax, Hor. C. 2.16.39: tenax veri, Pers. 5, 48: dura, Ov. P. 4, 15, 36.--Plur., the Fates: Parcae, Hesperides, etc.: quos omnes Erebo et Nocte natos ferunt, Cic. N. D. 3, 17, 44: Parcae fatalia nentes Stamina non ulli dissoluenda deo, Tib. 1, 7, 1: immites, Prop. 4 (5), 11, 13: iniquae, Hor. C. 2.6.9: veraces, id. C. S. 25: sic placitum Parcis, id. C. 2.17.16; Lact. 2, 10, 20; Verg. E. 4.47; Juv. 12, 64.