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νέμεσις 1 νέμω

I.properly, distribution of what is due; hence a righteous assignment of anger, wrath at anything unjust, just resentment, Hom.: indignation at undeserved good fortune, Arist.
2.of the gods, indignation, wrath, ἐκ θεοῦ ν. Hdt., Soph.
II.the object of just resentment, Hom.; οὐ νέμεσις [ἐστί] 'tis no cause for wrath that . . , c. inf., id=Hom., Soph.
III.indignation at one's own misdeed, a sense of sin, Il.
B.Νέμεσις, ιος, as prop. n., voc. Νέμεσι, Nemesis, the impersonation of divine wrath, Hes.: in Trag., the goddess of retribution.

1 νέμεσις, εως,

Liddell and Scott. An Intermediate Greek-English Lexicon. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1889.

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