NEMESIS

Dictionary of Science, Literature and Art · 1842 · p. 31

A Greek divinity, worshipped as the godde of vengeance. According to Hesiod, she was the daughter of Night, and was represented as pursuing with inflexible hatred the proud and insolent. The reluctance of the Greeks to speak boastfully of their good fortune, those of Olympia. •aed with parsley. [s. 833]