As Hadrian - Nemesis
HADRIAN. Æ As. Rome, 134-138 (135?) AD.
Obv. HADRIANVS AVG COS III PP Laureated head right
Rev. SC Victoria-Nemesis standing right, holding a branch (and in an apotropaic gesture, lifting her peplos to spit on her breast?).
C. 1373 (6F)
Rarely represented divinity,
'Nemesis, winged balancer of life,
dark-faced goddess, daughter of Justice',
wrote the poet Mesomedes, Hadrian's freedman, where he addressed her, and mentioned her "adamantine bridles" that restrain "the frivolous insolences of mortals.
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