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νέμεσις , εως, ἡ, Ep. dat.
A.“νεμέσσι” Il.6.335: (νέμω):—prop., like νέμησις, distribution of what is due; but in usage always retribution, esp. righteous anger aroused by injustice, not used of the gods in Hom.; “ν. δέ μοι ἐξ ἀνθρώπων ἔσσεται” Od.2.136, cf. 22.40, Il.6.351; αἰδῶ καὶ νέμεσιν (where αἰ. is subjective, ν. objective) 13.122 (the two personified, Hes.Op.200) : c. gen. obj., “Τρώων χόλῳ οὐδὲ νεμέσσι” Il.6.335; esp. in phrase οὐ νέμεσις it is no cause for anger that . . , c. inf., “οὐ γάρ τις ν. φυγέειν κακόν” 14.80: c. acc. et inf., 3.156; “πενθεῖν οὐ χρή: ν. γάρ” S.OC1753 (anap.); τίς τάδε ν. στυγεῖ; A.Th.235 (lyr.); later, of the wrath of the gods, “ἐκ θεοῦ ν.” Hdt.1.34; “θεῶν ν.” S.Ph.518 (lyr.), 602, cf. OGI383.115 (Nemrud Dagh, i B.C.); also “ἡ ἐκ τοῦ νόμου ν.” Ael.VH6.10; indignation at undeserved good fortune, “ν. μεσότης φθόνου καὶ ἐπιχαιρεκακίας” Arist.EN1108a35.
B. Νέμεσις, εως, ἡ, as pr. n., voc. “Νέμεσι” S.El.792:—Nemesis, the impersonation of divine Retribution, coupled with Αἰδώς, Hes. Op.200 (v. supr.), cf. Th.223; ὑπέρδικος N. Pi.P.10.44; Ἀδράστεια καὶ N. SIG2940.16 (Cos): in Trag. and later writers freq. avenger of the dead, A.Fr.266, etc.; ἔστι γὰρ ἐν φθιμένοις N. “μέγα” Epigr.Gr.367.9; Νέμεσι τοῦ θανόντος S.l.c.: in pl., κάλλους εἰσί τινες Νεμέσεις; AP11.326 (Autom.); two were worshipped at Smyrna, Paus.7.5.2, cf. CIG2663 (Halic.), IGRom.4.1431.5 (Smyrna), AP12.193 (Strat.), Supp.Epigr.4.277 (Panamara).
2. Astrol., name of the seventh κλῆρος (τοῦ Κρόνου) Paul.Al.K.3, Rhetor.in Cat.Cod.Astr.1.160, 168, cf. Vett.Val.2.22.
C. Pythag. name for five, Theol.Ar.31.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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    • Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes, 235
    • Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1108a.35
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