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γάμος [α^], ὁ,
A.wedding, Il.5.4.29, al.; “γάμοι εἰλαπίναι τε” 18.491; γάμον τεύχειν furnish forth a wedding, Od. 1.277; “γ. δαινύναι” 4.3; ἀρτύειν ib.770; “γάμον ποιεῖν” Herod.7.86, Test.Epict.2.19: pl., “γάμους διττοὺς ἑστιᾶν” Is.8.9; of a single wedding, “οἰκοσίτους τοὺς γ. ποιεῖσθαι” Men.450; “γάμους ποιεῖν” D.30.21, Ev.Matt.22.2; “ἐπιτελεῖν γ. τῆς θυγατρός” Arist.Fr.549, cf. D.S.13.84; “οἱ κεκλημένοι εἰς τοὺς γ.” Diph. 17.2; “ἐν τοῖς γ. ἄκλητος εἰσδεδυκέναι” Apollod.Car.24.
II. marriage, wedlock, Il.13.382, etc.; “ἄγειν [γυναῖκα] ἐπὶ γάμῳ” X.An.2.4.8; “ἀγαγέσθαι τινὰ πρὸς γάμον” Plu.Cat.Ma.24; τὸν Οἰνέως γ. the marriage granted by O., S.Tr.792; “γ. θεῶν τινος” E.Tr.979, cf. IT25; “εἰς γ. τινὸς ἐλθεῖν” Id.IA1044 (lyr.); more freq. in pl., A.Pr.558 (lyr.), 739 (lyr.), Ag.1156 (lyr.), etc.; cf. “γαμέω” 1: also τοῖς μεθημερινοῖς γάμοις, i.e. prostitution, D.18.129; Πανὸς ἀναβοᾷ γάμους, i.e. rape, E.Hel.190 (lyr.); of unlawful wedlock, as of Paris and Helen, Id.Tr. 932; “γάμοι ἄρρενες” Luc.VH1.22; “γ. ἀνδρεῖοι” Procop.Arc.16.23:—E. Andr.103, X. Cyr.8.4.19, do not establish the sense of a wife; for E.Tr.357, v. γαμέω 1.1.
III. ἱερὸς γ. ritual marriage, Men.320, Hsch., EM468.56; as a nickname, Anaxandr.34.2; name of play by Ale.Com.
IV. Pythag. name for three, Theol.Ar.16; for five, Plu.2.388c; for six, Theo Sm.p.102H., Theol.Ar.33.
V. Γάμος personified, Philox.13, Lib.Or.5.27.
VI. name of month at Epidaurus, IG4.1485,1492. (Perh. akin to Skt. jāmís 'brother or sister', Lat. geminus.）
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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