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Headword:
Nemesis
Adler number: nu,163
Translated headword: nemesis, Nemesis
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] vengeance, justice, outrage, [divine] spite, chance.[1]
"[They] perceiving Nemesis, the executioner of braggarts, who pursued them with justice."[2] And elsewhere: "[he] did not escape the notice of Nemesis who opposes all the arrogant, but was compelled to be taught a lesson in [his] private misfortunes."[3]
"Nemesis was present, she who watches the things of the earth"; or in other words, she who watches unjust acts.
Babrius says [this] in the
Fables.[4]
And
Aelian [writes]: "palpable evidence of Nemesis the overseer, chastizing proud and disdainful ways".[5]
And [there is] a proverb: "at least Nemesis walks at your feet"; tantamount [to saying] the goddess swiftly pursues wrong-doers.[6]
"Unnoticed you walk at one's feet, snap one's haughty neck, and always hold sway over one's life with your forearm."[7]
Greek Original:Nemesis: mempsis, dikê, hubris, phthonos, tuchê. tên tôn alazonôn timôron sunentes Nemesin, hêper autous metêlthe sun têi dikêi. kai authis: ouk elathe tên hapasin enantioumenên tois huperêphanois Nemesin, all' en tais idiais ênankasthê paideuthênai sumphorais. parên d' hê Nemesis, hê ta gês epopteuei: ê kai allôs, hê tadik' epopteuei. Babrios phêsin en Muthikois. kai Ailianos: Nemeseôs ephorou, tropous huperoptas kai huperêphanous kolazousês, enargê marturia. kai paroimia: Nemesis de ge par podas bainei: paroson meteisi tacheôs hê daimôn tous hêmartêkotas. lêthousa de par podas baineis, gauroumenon auchena klineis, hupo pêchun aei biotan krateis.
Notes:
See already
nu 162, and generally OCD4 Nemesis.
[1] This compendious list of synonyms (some closer than others) for the headword is also in other lexica, with other permutations elsewhere: see the references at
Photius nu111 Theodoridis.
[2]
Aelian fr. 231 Domingo-Forasté (232 Hercher).
[3]
Aelian fr. 232 Domingo-Forasté (233 Hercher).
[4]
Babrius 43.6. (The Suda adds the definite article.)
[5]
Aelian fr. 163 Domingo-Forasté (160 Hercher).
[6] See generally Tosi (cited under
alpha 378) no.898, on Horace's
culpam poena premit comes and Greek parallels.
[7]
Synesius,
Letter 95, p.235b Hercher, quoting
Mesomedes (translation at web address 1); see under
upsilon 559. On
Mesomedes, see
mu 668.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; daily life; definition; ethics; history; mythology; poetry; proverbs; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: Jennifer Benedict on 13 June 2000@13:35:52.
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