hymenaeon
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Hymenaeos, Hymenaei:
Masculine · Noun
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Geography:
- Greece
Greek wedding chant/refrain; (personified as a god); marriage, wedding, match;
acc. sg.
Examples
Liber Secundus
Publius Papinius Statius from SILVAE
"...simplicitate, comitate, 85censu, sanguine, gratia, decore,et vestros hymenaeon ante postesfestis cantibus ipsa personabo. O saevae nimium gravesque..."- P
Metamorphoses XII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...ipsi, festaque confusa resonabat regia turba. ecce canunt Hymenaeon, et ignibus atria fumant, cinctaque adest virgo matrum nuruumque..."