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Liddell & Scott Intermediate Lexicon

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[I] properly, distribution of what is due; hence a righteous assignment of anger, wrath at anything unjust, just resentment, Hom.: indignation at undeserved good fortune, Arist.

[2] of the gods, indignation, wrath, ek theou n. Hdt., Soph.

[II] the object of just resentment, Hom.; ou nemesis [esti] 'tis no cause for wrath that . . , c. inf., Hom., Soph.

[III] indignation at one's own misdeed, a sense of sin, Il.

[B] nemesis, ios, as prop. n., voc. nemesi, Nemesis, the impersonation of divine wrath, Hes.: in Trag., the goddess of retribution.