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vague personification of a moralising- sort, but a definite figure
of ancient religion. Her name—he thinks—was a title given at
Rhamnous to a goddess of birth and death resembling Artemis,
and at Smyrna to two goddesses (originally to one goddess) of
vegetation resembling Aphrodite. He holds that the appellative,
if Homeric or post-Homeric in date, marked 'the goddess who
feels righteous indignation at evil acts and evil words,' if pre-
Homeric, ' denoted distribution of any lot, the lot of life to which

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each is born1.' I agree with this able scholar in thinking that
Nemesis was a substantial deity of early date akin to Artemis, if
not also to Aphrodite; but for that very reason I cannot be content
to saddle her with a cult-title denoting either ' indignation ' or
'distribution.' The cult of -ations and -utions is late, not early.
I incline to believe that Nemesis, a concrete 'goddess of the

1 Farnell Cults of Gk. States i. 487—498.