Nemesis

Nĕmĕsis, is and ĭos, f., = Νέμεσις,

• the goddess of justice, who punishes human pride and arrogance; also called Adrastea and Rhamnusia (v. h. vv.): ne poenas Nemesis reposcat a te, Cat. 50, 18: Graecam Nemesin invocantes, Plin. 28, 2, 5, § 22: post aurem Nemesios, id. 11, 45, 103, § 251. —Voc.: Nemesis, Aus. Idyll. 8, 41.—Sometimes identical with Fortuna: DEAE NEMESI SIVE FORTVNAE, Inscr. Grut. 80, 1.—Acc. to Macr. S. 1, 22, Nemesis is the Sun; acc. to Lact. 1, 21, 23, she is Leda, who was removed to heaven after her death.

Nĕmĕsis, is, f.,

• a mistress of Tibullus, Tib. 2, 3, 51; 2, 4, 59; cf. 2, 5, 111; 2, 6, 27; Ov. Am. 3, 9, 31; cf. Mart. 8, 73, 7.

Nemesis, eōs, Akk. ina u. im, f. (Νέμεσις), I) die Göttin der Gerechtigkeit, die bes. Hochmut u. Übermut bestraft, Catull. 50, 20. Macr. sat. 1, 22. § 1: Genet., Plin. 11, 251: Akk., Plin. 28, 22. Amm. 14, 11, 25: Vok. Nemesis, Auson. edyll. 8, 41. p. 18, 33 Schenkl. – identifiziert mit der vergötterten Leda, Lact. 1, 21, 23: mit der Fortuna, Corp. inscr. Lat. 3, 1125 (wo Dat. Nemesi). – mit den Beinamen Adrastea (w. s.) u. Rhamnusia (s. Rhamnūsunter Rhamnus). – II) Geliebte des Tibull, Tibull. 2, 3, 61 u. 2, 4, 59. Ov. am. 3, 9, 31. Mart. 8, 73, 8: Akk., Tibull. 2, 5, 111 u. 2, 6, 27.

Nĕmĕsis, (13) is, f. (Νέμεσις), ¶ 1 fille de Jupiter et de la Nécessité, déesse vengeresse des crimes : Catul. 50, 20 ; Plin. 28, 22 ¶ 2 femme chantée par Tibulle : Tib. 2, 3, 51.

nemesis, is. f.
罰惡人之女神名。

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Nemĕsis

(Νέμεσις). A post-Homeric personification of the moral indignation felt at all derangements of the natural equilibrium of things, whether by extraordinarily good fortune or by the arrogance usually attendant thereon. According to Hesiod (Theog. 223) she is the daughter of Night (Nyx), and with Aidos, the goddess of Modesty, left the earth on the advent of the Iron Age. A legend makes her to have been by Zeus the mother of Helen and the Dioscuri (Athen. p. 334). As goddess of due proportion she hates every transgression of the bounds of moderation, and restores the proper and normal order of things. As, in doing this, she punishes wanton boastfulness, she is a divinity of chastisement and vengeance. She enjoyed special honour in the Attic district of Rhamnus (where she was believed to be the daughter of Oceanus), and is often called the Rhamnusian goddess. Her statue there (of which fragments were found in 1890) was said to have been executed by Phidias out of a block of Parian marble which the Persians had brought with them in presumptuous confidence to Marathon, to erect a trophy of victory there. She was also called Adrastia, that name appropriate only to the Phrygian Rhea-Cybelé, being interpreted as a Greek word with the meaning, “She whom none can escape.” She was also worshipped at Rome, especially by victorious generals, and was represented as a meditative, thoughtful maiden with the attributes of proportion and control (a measuring-rod, a bridle, and a yoke), of punishment (a sword and scourge), and of swiftness (wings, a wheel, and a chariot drawn by griffins).

Nemĕsis

A lady loved by Tibullus and celebrated by him in his verse. See Doncieux, De Tibulli Amoribus (Paris, 1887), and the article Tibullus.

Nemesis Nemesis, daughter of Ocean

• Paus. 1.33.3, Paus. 7.5.3
• turned into a goose, consorts with Zeus, turned into a swan: Apollod. 3.10.7
• lays an egg, out of which Helen is hatched: Apollod. 3.10.7
• mother of Helen: Paus. 1.33.7
• sanctuary and image of Nemesis at Rhamnus: Paus. 1.33.2-8
• temple and image at Patrae: Paus. 7.20.9
• ancient images of Nemesis wingless: Paus. 1.33.7
• in later times Nemesis represented with wings: Paus. 1.33.7
• sanctuary of two Nemeses at Smyrna: Paus. 7.5.2ff., Paus. 9.35.6
• the two Nemeses daughters of Night: Paus. 7.5.3
• wooden images of Nemeses at Smyrna: Paus. 1.33.7