Νέμεσις

Where it lives

• Works and Days 1 · 1.73/10k
• De Mundo 1 · 1.58/10k
• Theogony 1 · 1.45/10k
• Electra 1 · 1.15/10k
• Phoenissae 1 · 1.04/10k
• Laws 1 · 0.1/10k

What it meant

This reads as a proper name — a river, a person, a place — held only because the corpus attests it. It stands outside the library's subject, the vocabulary of the soul, so no lexicon entry is recorded.

In the wild

• Νέμεσιν · Nemesin Aristotle, De Mundo (DIORISIS sentence 173)
• Νέμεσι · Nemesi Euripides, Phoenissae (DIORISIS sentence 90)
• Νέμεσιν · Nemesin Theogony 223
• Νέμεσις · Nemesis Works and Days 197–199
• Νέμεσις · Nemesis Plato, Laws 717
• Νέμεσι · Nemesi Sophocles, Electra 792

Where it came from

• Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) Treated in Beekes, Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Brill 2010) s.v. Νέμεσις (scan pp. 1056-1057; entry #4301). Root candidates: *nem-.
• Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch Treated in Frisk, Griechisches etymologisches Worterbuch s.v. Νέμεσις (scan p. 1273; entry #4061).

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