[395] Rhamnusia virgo: i.e. Nemesis, so called from her famous temple at Rhamnus in Attica; cf. Catul. 66.71; Catul. 68.77; Ov. Met. 3.406 “adsensit precibus Rhamnusia iustis” ; Stat. Silv. 3.5.5 “audiat infesto licet hoc Rhamnusia vultu” . Ares and Athena often encourage men to battle in the Iliad, but this function on the part of Nemesis is nowhere else mentioned. Perhaps it is from an unknown Alexandrian source, or else the conjecture of Baehrens is right (Amarunsia virgo = Artemis of Amarynthus in Euboea; cf. Strab. X.448; Paus. 1.31.4).
Catullus. Catullus. E. T. Merrill. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1893.
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