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Nemesis

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Adrasteia
The name Adrasteia is invoked twice in Euripides's tragedy Rhesus (here perhaps identified with the goddess Nemesis as the punisher of boasts). The chorus, because of the praise they are about to give Rhesus, invoke the goddess saying:
 * May Adrasteia, daughter of Zeus
 * shield my words from divine hostility!

In a subsequent passage the hero Rhesus invokes her name ("may Adrasteia not resent my words") before boasting to the Trojan hero Hector that he will defeat the Greeks at Troy and sack all of Greece.

In the Aeschylean Prometheus Bound, after Prometheus fortells the fall of Zeus, the chorus warns Prometheus that the wise "bow to Adrasteia", a formulaic expression meaning to apologize for a remark which might offend some divinity.