Ῥαμνουσία Νέμεσις
Nemesis of Rhamnous, Rhamnousian Nemesis
Translated by Ross Scaife ✝22 May 2002Vetting: high6 revisions
Translation
She1 was first modelled on the appearance of Aphrodite; that is why she held a sprig from an appletree. Erechtheus set her up,2 since she was his mother, but she was named Nemesis and reigned in the place.3 But Pheidias4 made the statue, whose inscription favored his beloved, Agorakritos of Paros.5 He also inscribed "Autarkhes" on the finger of Zeus at Olympia. This man was a handsome Argive, his beloved.6
There is also a proverb, 'Rhamnousios', in reference to to the wise and well-regarded.7
There is also a proverb, 'Rhamnousios', in reference to to the wise and well-regarded.7
Greek original · Adler’s text
Ῥαμνουσία Νέμεσις· αὕτη πρῶτον ἀφίδρυτο ἐν Ἀφροδίτης σχήματι· διὸ καὶ κλάδον εἶχε μηλέας. ἱδρύσατο δὲ αὐτὴν Ἐρεχθεύς, μητέρα ἑαυτοῦ οὖσαν, ὀνομαζομένην δὲ Νέμεσιν καὶ βασιλεύσασαν ἐν τῷ τόπῳ. τὸ δὲ ἄγαλμα Φειδίας ἐποίησεν· οὗ τὴν ἐπιγραφὴν ἐχαρίσατο Ἀγορακρίτῳ τῷ Παρίῳ ἐρωμένῳ. ὃς καὶ Ὀλυμπίασι τῷ δακτύλῳ τοῦ Διὸς ἐπέγραψεν, Αὐτάρχης. καλὸς δ' ἦν οὗτος Ἀργεῖος, ἐρώμενος αὐτοῦ. λέγεται δὲ καὶ παροιμία, Ῥαμνούσιος, ἐπὶ τῶν σοφῶν καὶ ἐλλογίμων.
Betacode
*(ramnousi/a *ne/mesis: au(/th prw=ton a)fi/druto e)n *)afrodi/ths sxh/mati: dio\ kai\ kla/don ei)=xe mhle/as. i(dru/sato de\ au)th\n *)erexqeu/s, mhte/ra e(autou= ou)=san, o)nomazome/nhn de\ *ne/mesin kai\ basileu/sasan e)n tw=| to/pw|. to\ de\ a)/galma *feidi/as e)poi/hsen: ou(= th\n e)pigrafh\n e)xari/sato *)agorakri/tw| tw=| *pari/w| e)rwme/nw|. o(\s kai\ *)olumpi/asi tw=| daktu/lw| tou= *dio\s e)pe/grayen, *au)ta/rxhs. kalo\s d' h)=n ou(=tos *)argei=os, e)rw/menos au)tou=. le/getai de\ kai\ paroimi/a, *(ramnou/sios, e)pi\ tw=n sofw=n kai\ e)llogi/mwn.
Notes (7)
- = Photius, Lexicon rho34 Theodoridis. The entry matches two adjacent ones in the Mantissa Proverbiorum (2.76-77); for the single divergence between them see n. 6 below.
On Nemesis see also alpha 524 and nu 163. - 1i.e. her statue. ↩
- 2i.e. established the sanctuary. ↩
- 3The town (and deme) of Rhamnous, in NE Attica, for which see under rho 32. ↩
- 4phi 246. ↩
- 5The actual sculptor of this statue: see the Oxford Dictionary of Art, s.v. Agoracritus ("Greek sculptor from Paros of the second half of the 5th cent. BC, a pupil of Phidias. His most celebrated work was a colossal marble statue of Nemesis at Rhamnus; a fragment of the head is in the British Museum, London"), and under OCD4 Agoracritus. The mistaken attribution to Pheidias himself is at least as old as Pausanias 1.33.3. ↩
- 6In Mantissa Proverbiorum 2.76 the name is Eparches. The correct version seems actually to be Pantarches/Pantarkes: so in Clement of Alexandria, Protrepticus 4.53.4, and elsewhere). ↩
- 7See already rho 32. ↩
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- Translated — Ross Scaife ✝