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ἐπιγα^μ-ία , ἡ,
A.additional marriage, Ath.13.560c.
2.. connexion by marriage, J.AJ17.1.1, al.; “πρός τινα” Id.BJ1.12.13.
II.. right of intermarriage between states, “ἐπιγαμίας . . καὶ ἐπεργασίας καὶ ἐπινομίας” X.Cyr.3.2.23; Ἀθαναίοις δόμεν ἐπιγαμίαν Decr.Byz. ap. D.18.91, cf. GDI5040 (Hierapytna), Wilcken Chr.27 (ii A.D.).
b.. = Lat. conubium, BGU265.7 (ii A.D.), etc.: generally, intermarriage, mostly pl., “ἐπιγαμίας ποιεῖσθαι” Hdt.2.147; “ἀλλήλοις” X.Cyr.1.5.3, cf. Decr. ap.D.18.187 (sg.); “Εὐβοεῦσιν” Lys.34.3; “παρ᾽ ἀλλήλοις” X.HG5.2.19; “πρὸς ἀλλήλους” Arist.Pol.1280b16, Str.5.3.4; “ἐπιγαμίαις χρῆσθαι” Arist. Pol.1280b36.
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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