Mesomedes' Hymn to Nemesis

I literally have five minutes to put something up today due to bad planning on my part, so forgive me when I leave you with another poetry post. I chose this because you guys seemed to really like the not-so-well-known 'Hymn to Athena' by Proklos. Forgive me, I will actually write you something tomorrow. It is most definitely one of those weeks.

Mesomedes of Krete (Μεσομήδης ὁ Κρής) was a Roman-era Hellenic lyric poet and composer of the early second century AD. He was a freedman and court musician to the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117-138 CE), and created  three hymns and fifteen poems which have survived to this day. The hymns to Nemesis, the muse Calliope, and the Sun can be read here and listened to here. I am partial to this translation of the 'Hymn to Nemesis', copied from here, as translated by AZ Foreman.

Nemesis, winged tilter of scales and lives,

Justice-spawned Goddess with steel-blue eyes!

Thou bridlest vain men who roil in vain 

Against Thy harsh adamantine rein.

Great hater of hubris and megalomania,

Obliterator of black resentment,

By Thy trackless, churning, wracking wheel

Man's glinting fortunes turn on earth.

Thou comest in oblivion's cloak to bend

The grandeur-deluded rebel neck,

With forearm measuring out lifetimes

With brow frowning into the heart of man

And the yoke raised sovereign in Thy hand. 

Hail in the highest, O justice-queen

Nemesis, winged tilter of scales and lives,

Immortal Resenter! I sing Thy song,

Almighty Payback on proud-spread wings,

Lieutenant of fairness, Requiter of wrongs.

Despise the lordly with all Thine art

And lay them low in the Nether-dark.