The evil genïus of a house: a Nemesis. Cicero says: “Who
meditated killing himself that he might become the Alastor of
Augustus, whom he hated.” Shelley has a poem entitled “Alastor, or The Spirit of Solitude”.
The word is Greek (alastor, the avenging
god, a title applied to Zeus); the Romans had their Jupiter Vindex; and
we read in the Bible, “Vengeance is mine. I will repay, saith the Lord”
(Romans xii. 19).
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