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fatidic

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fa·tid·ic  (f-tdk) also fa·tid·i·cal (--kl)
adj.
Relating to or characterized by prophecy; prophetic.
[Latin ftidicus : ftum, prophecy, doom; see fate + dcere, to say; see deik- in Indo-European roots.]


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In the epithalamium, they chant about Achilles's future life while laboring at their threads, and their strophic hymn corresponds to the fatidic "twisting" (the Latin "torquere") which dictates the life-course of every human being.
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