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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

  • οὐδὲν γὰρ ἔξω τῆσ μὲν ἀνθρωπείασ, τῆσ δ’ εἰσ τὸ θεῖον νεμέσεωσ τῶν τ’ εἰσ σφᾶσ αὐτοὺσ βουλήσεων δικαιοῦμεν ἢ πράσσομεν. (Dionysius of Halicarnassus, , chapter 40 1:5)
  • τύχησ καὶ δαίμονοσ φθονεροῦ καὶ νεμέσεωσ ἔσται τὸ ἔργον ἂν δ’ οὗτοι κρατήσωσιν, Ἀρετὴ καὶ τόλμα καὶ φιλία καὶ πίστισ ἐξοίσεται τὸ νικητήριον; (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 13 27:1)
  • κἂν μὲν ἐκεῖνοι περιγένωνται, Τύχησ καὶ δαίμονοσ φθονεροῦ καὶ νεμέσεωσ ἔσται τὸ ἔργον ἂν δ’ οὗτοι κρατήσωσιν, Ἀρετὴ καὶ τόλμα καὶ φιλία καὶ πίστισ ἐξοίσεται τὸ νικητήριον; (Plutarch, De Alexandri magni fortuna aut virtute, chapter 2, section 12 12:2)
  • λέγουσι δὲ ἔνιοι Νεμέσεωσ Ἑλένην εἶναι καὶ Διόσ. (Apollodorus, Library and Epitome, book 3, chapter 10 8:2)
  • εἰσ στήλην Νεμέσεωσ ἡ Νέμεσισ προλέγει τῷ πήχεϊ, τῷ τε χαλινῷ, μήτ’ ἄμετρόν τι ποιεῖν, μήτ’ ἀχάλινα λέγειν. (Unknown, Greek Anthology, Volume V, book 16, chapter 2231)

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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