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[649] νεμεσητός recurs only in the form “νεμεσσητόν”, a thing worthy of “νέμεσις”, or indignation (3.410, etc.). It seems to mean here ‘capable of feeling indignation’; for the form compare “ἐπιεικτός” = yielding 8.32, “ἑρπετός” creeping, “τλητός” enduring, etc. (see the remarks in H. G. § 246*). The analogy of 3.172 “αἰδοῖος δεινός τε” would lead us to translate terrible; but this is not sufficiently supported by the use of “νεμεσίζομαι” in one passage (Od. 1.263) in the sense of ‘fearing the gods,’ which is itself suspicious, see Agar C. R. xiii. 194. Compare also note on 15.211. Possibly the natural association of “αἰδὼς καὶ νέμεσις” (13.122) may have brought the two adjectives together.

The Iliad, edited, with apparatus criticus, prolegomena, notes, and appendices. Walter Leaf. London. Macmillan. 1900.

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