A.= μοῖρα 111.1, fate, destiny, poet. and Ion. Prose: c. inf., μόρος [ἐστὶν] ὀλέσθαι 'tis my doom to die, Il.19.421; ὑπὲρ μόρον beyond destiny, of those who by their own fault add to their destined share of misery, 20.30, Od.1.34, etc. (to be written divisim, cf. μοῖρα; but cf. ὑπέρμορα, ὑπερμόρως).
II. doom, death, “ὅτε μιν μόρος αἰνὸς ἱκάνοι” Il.18.465, cf. Pi.P.3.58, etc.; νῦν δ᾽ . . ἦλθέ ποθεν σωτήρ, ἢ μόρον εἴπω; A.Ch.1074 (anap.); in Hdt. always of a violent death, “τοιούτῳ μόρῳ ἐχρήσατο” 1.117; κακὸς μόρος, θάνατός τε μόρος τε, Il.21.133, Od.9.61, etc.; μόρῳ ἀνοσίῳ, αἰσχίστῳ, Hdt.3.65, 9.17, etc.; “μ. λευγαλέῳ” S.Fr.785: also in pl., Heraclit.20, 25, S.Ant.1313, 1329 (lyr.).
2. corpse, “αἱματηφόρους μόρους” A.Th.420 (lyr.); “νέος νέῳ ξὺν μόρῳ ἔθανες” S.Ant.1266 (lyr.), cf. AP7.404 (Zon.).
III. a measure of land in Locris, Berl.Sitzb.1927.8 (v B. C.); at Mytilene, IG12(2).74 B 3.
