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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

  • τίκτε δὲ καὶ Νέμεσιν, πῆμα θνητοῖσι βροτοῖσι, Νὺξ ὀλοή· (Hesiod, Theogony, Book Th. 25:5)
  • πῶσ καὶ δένδρεα μακρὰ καὶ εἰνάλιοι καμασῆνεσ, καὶ ὅτι ὁ τὰ Κύπρια ποιήσασ ἔπη, εἴτε Κύπριόσ τίσ ἐστιν ἢ Στασῖνοσ ἢ ὅστισ δή ποτε χαίρει ὀνομαζόμενοσ, τὴν Νέμεσιν ποιεῖ διωκομένην ὑπὸ Διὸσ καὶ εἰσ ἰχθὺν μεταμορφουμένην διὰ τούτων τοὺσ δὲ μέτα τριτάτην Ἑλένην τέκε, θαῦμα βροτοῖσι· (Athenaeus, The Deipnosophists, Book 8, book 8, chapter 102)
  • "πάθοσ ὀνειδίζεισ, ἐπὶ τοῦ νώτου φέρων τὴν νέμεσιν" οὐκοῦν μηδὲ μοιχὸν λοιδορήσῃσ, αὐτὸσ ὢν παιδομανήσ· (Plutarch, De capienda ex inimicis utilitate, chapter, section 5 3:1)
  • Αἰμιλίῳ μὲν οὖν τὴν τοῦ κατορθώματοσ νέμεσιν εἰσ ἕτερον ἡ τύχη καιρὸν ὑπερβαλλομένη τότε παντελῆ τὴν ἡδονὴν ἀπεδίδου τῆσ νίκησ. (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 22 4:3)
  • "οὐ καταβαλόντεσ ὑμεῖσ οἱ νέοι τὸ κενὸν φρύαγμα τοῦτο καὶ γαυρίαμα τῆσ νίκησ ταπεινοὶ καταπτήξετε πρὸσ τὸ μέλλον, ἀεὶ καραδοκοῦντεσ εἰσ ὅ τι κατασκήψει τέλοσ ἑκάστῳ τὴν τῆσ παρούσησ εὐπραγίασ ὁ δαίμων νέμεσιν; (Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, chapter 27 1:5)

Synonyms

  1. indignation

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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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