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Headword:
Νεμέσια
Adler number: nu,159
Translated headword: Nemesia, Nemeseia
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Demosthenes in the [speech]
Against Spoudias [sc. mentions it].[1] Perhaps a particular festival of
Nemesis, at which they used to perform the customary rites for the dead.
So [the] Nemesia [was] the celebration held for the dead, since
nemesis is assigned to the dead.
Greek Original:Νεμέσια: Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ κατὰ Σπουδίου. μήποτε ἑορτή τις Νεμέσεως, καθ' ἣν τοῖς κατοιχομένοις ἐπετέλουν τὰ νομιζόμενα. Νεμέσια οὖν ἡ ἐπὶ τοῖς νεκροῖς γινομένη πανήγυρις, ἐπεὶ ἡ νέμεσις ἐπὶ τῶν νεκρῶν τέτακται.
Notes:
The first paragraph here follows Harpokration s.v., the second
Photius s..v.
[1]
Demosthenes 41.11.
OCD(3) 1034
Keywords: daily life; definition; religion; rhetoric
Translated by: David Whitehead on 10 December 2000@09:55:16.
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