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γα^μήλ-ιος , ον,
A.of or for a wedding, bridal, nuptial, “κοίτη” Id.Supp.805 (lyr.); “τέλος” Id.Eu.835; “χοαί” Id.Ch.487; “λέκτρα” Id.Fr.242; “εὐνή” E.Med.673; “οὐχ ἧψαν φῶς τὸ γ.” Epigr.Gr.256.7 (Cyprus); “ζυγὸν γ.” IG14.2125; of divinities, presiding over marriage, Ath.5.185b, Poll.1.24; “Ἀφροδίτα” E.Fr.781.17 (lyr.).
II. as Subst., γαμήλιος (sc. πλακοῦς), ὁ, bride cake, Philetaer.13.5.
2. γαμηλία (sc. θυσία), ἡ, wedding-feast, γαμηλίαν εἰσφέρειν τοῖς φράτερσι contribute the wedding feast for one's clansmen, D.57.69; τοῖς φ. ὑπέρ τινος ib.43, cf.Is.3.79: abs., ib.76.
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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