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νέμεσις

Third declension Noun; Feminine 자동번역 Transliteration:

Principal Part: νέμεσις νέμεσεως

Structure: νεμεσι (Stem) + ς (Ending)

Etym.: ne/mw

Sense

  1. distribution of what is due;, a righteous assignment of anger, wrath at anything unjust, just resentment, indignation at undeserved good fortune
  2. indignation, wrath
  3. the object of just resentment, no cause for wrath
  4. indignation at one's own misdeed, a sense of sin
  5. Nemesis, divine wrath, the goddess of retribution.

Declension

Third declension

The inflection forms above were generated by rules and some usages of them were not attested.

Due to a bug of system, some forms may display wrong accents.

Examples

  • οἱ δὲ ἐλογοποίουν ὅτι τοῖσ Σμυρναίοισ παμπόλλασ δωρεὰσ δοίη καὶ χρήματα ἀμύθητα πέμψειε μετὰ τῶν Νεμέσεων, καὶ νὴ Δί̓ ὡσ ἄλλου τινὸσ διαλεχθέντοσ μυρίουσ μὲν αὐτῷ συνεχώρησε βουλευτάσ, χρυσίου δ̓ ἐκέλευσε ποταμὸν εἰσ τὴν πόλιν τραπῆναι καὶ μυριάδεσ ἄπειροί τινεσ ἐδόθησαν· (Dio, Chrysostom, Orationes, 24:1)
  • Ἀλέξανδρον γὰρ θηρεύοντα ἐν τῷ ὄρει τῷ Πάγῳ, ὡσ ἐγένετο ἀπὸ τῆσ θήρασ, ἀφικέσθαι πρὸσ Νεμέσεων λέγουσιν ἱερόν, καὶ πηγῇ τε ἐπιτυχεῖν αὐτὸν καὶ πλατάνῳ πρὸ τοῦ ἱεροῦ, πεφυκυίᾳ δὲ ἐπὶ τοῦ ὕδατοσ. (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 5 3:1)
  • καὶ Σμυρναίοισ τοῦτο μὲν ἐν τῷ ἱερῷ τῶν Νεμέσεων ὑπὲρ τῶν ἀγαλμάτων χρυσοῦ Χάριτεσ ἀνάκεινται, τέχνη Βουπάλου, τοῦτο δέ σφισιν ἐν τῷ Ωἰδείῳ Χάριτόσ ἐστιν εἰκών, Ἀπελλοῦ γραφή, Περγαμηνοῖσ δὲ ὡσαύτωσ ἐν τῷ Ἀττάλου θαλάμῳ, Βουπάλου καὶ αὗται· (Pausanias, Description of Greece, , chapter 35 9:1)

Synonyms

  1. indignation

Related

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Source: Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. "A Greek-English Lexicon". revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones.

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