Jhordan

Hymn to Nemesis

By Mesomedes of Crete (2nd c. AD) Translated by A.Z. Foreman

Nemesis, winged tilter of scales and lives, Justice-spawned Goddess with steel-blue eyes! You bridle vain men who roil in vain Against Your adamantine rein. Great hater of hubris and megalomania, Obliterator of black resentment, By Your trackless, churning, wracking wheel Man’s glinting fortunes turn on earth. You come in oblivion’s cloak to bend The grandeur-deluded rebel neck, With forearm measuring out lifetimes, With brow frowning into the heart of man And the yoke raised sovereign in Your hand. Hail in the highest, O justice-queen

Nemesis, winged tilter of scales and lives, Immortal Judge! I sing Your song, Almighty Triumph on proud-spread wings, Lieutenant of fairness, Requiter of wrongs. Despise the lordly with all Your art And lay them low in the Netherdark.

When it comes to Zeus, here are the useful epithets: 

Labrandeus (raging/furious)

Palamnaeus (punisher of murderers)

Laoites (of the people)

Sosipolis (city-savior)

Eleuthereus (of freedom)

💗✨🌿🕊☀️💧☀️🕊🌿✨💗

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Nemesis, 1837

Alfred Rethel

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