A.about to be betrothed or wedded, esp. of females, S.Ant.633, D.C.58.7, Epigr.Gr. 364.3 (Cotiaeum); rarely of the male, Phryn.Com.78 (prob. for -νύμφιος), Lyc.174: in S.Tr.207 (lyr.), ἀνολολυξάτω （-ύξετε codd.) δόμοις . . ὁ μελλόνυμφος, we shd. read either δόμος . . ὁ μ. the maidens of the household or δόμοις . . ἁ (sc. κλαγγά) the shout of the maidens.
μελλό-νυμφος , ον,
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.
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