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νεμεσητός

nemesetos

causing indignation

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Where it lives

Philoctetes 1 · 1.14/10k
Euthydemus 1 · 0.8/10k
Iliad 6 · 0.54/10k
Rhetoric 1 · 0.23/10k
Odyssey 2 · 0.23/10k
Laws 1 · 0.1/10k
Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1 · 0.09/10k

What it meant

νεμεσ-ητός · nemes-ētos — LSJ

causing indignation, wrath, worthy of it, it is matter for indignation

causing indignation or wrath, worthy of it, νεμεσσητὸν δέ κεν εἴη 3.410, etc.: c. inf., οὔ τι νεμεσσητὸν κεχολῶσθαι 9.523, Od. 22.59; οὔτοι νεμεσητόν S. Ph. 1193 (lyr.), cf. Pl. Euthd. 282b; οὐ ν. τὸ διαμαρτάνειν Phld. Sto. 339.12; ν. ἰδεῖν Tyrt. 10.26; ψεῦδος δὲ . . ν. κατὰ φύσιν Pl. Lg. 943e; νεμεσητὸν ἐὰν . . it is matter for indignation that . . , Arist. Rh. 1387a32, cf. IPE 12.34.17 (Olbia).

2 retributive, retribution

retributive, ἔπαθε πρᾶγμα ν. retribution, Plu. Ages. 22 ; so νεμεσητὰ παθεῖν Id. Per. 37; πάθος ν. ἔπαθε Id. Pomp. 38; τὸ ν. ἀφοσιούμενος ib. 42.

b deserving retribution

deserving retribution, Nic.Dam. 68.9J.

II prone to wrath

Act., prone to wrath, αἰδοῖος νεμεσητός Il. 11.649; Κύπρι νεμεσσατά Theoc. 1.101.

In the wild

νεμεσητόν · nemesēton Aristotle, Rhetoric 2
νεμεσητόν · nemesēton Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers 1.3 (DIORISIS sentence 581)
νεμεσητὸς · nemesētos Iliad 11.649
νεμεσσητὸν · nemessēton Iliad 14.336
νεμεσσητὸν · nemessēton Iliad 19.182
νεμεσσητὸν · nemessēton Iliad 24.463

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