adrastea









adrastea


noun

  1. a small satellite of Jupiter, discovered in 1979

“nemesis,” daughter of Zeus, distributor of rewards and punishments, from Greek Adrasteia, literally “she from whom there is no escape,” from adrastos “not running away,” from privative prefix a- + stem of drasmos “a running away,” related to dromos “course” (see dromedary).

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