one of the three Fates
Latin word, found 15 times in the texts on Socratos.
Ovid, Tristia 5.10.45: o duram Lachesin, quae tam grave sidus habenti
Seneca the Younger, Oedipus 986: Lachesis nulla revoluta manu.
Juvenal, Saturae 1.3.27: dum superest Lachesi quod torqueat et pedibus me