hymenaeus
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Hymenaeus, Hymenaei:
Masculine · Noun · 2nd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Geography:
- Greece
Greek wedding chant/refrain; (personified as a god); marriage, wedding, match;
nom. sg.
Examples
Medea
Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Seneca the Younger) from FABULAE
"...peregrino nubit furtiua marito. Medea Occidimus: aures pepulit hymenaeus meas. uix ipsa tantum, uix adhuc credo malum..."Appendix Perottina
Gaius Phaedrus
"...parum explicatur, turba concurrit frequens,et coniugalem praefent Hymenaeus facem.Asellus autem, qui solebat pauperiquaestum deferre, stabat portae..."Aeneid IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...certa voluntas, conubio iungam stabili propriamque dicabo. hic hymenaeus erit.' non adversata petenti adnuit atque dolis risit Cytherea..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...pinguis linquere mensas, iam veniet virgo, iam dicetur hymenaeus. Hymen o Hymenaee, Hymen ades o Hymenaee! Cernitis, innuptae..."Metamorphoses X
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...inmensum croceo velatus amictu aethera digreditur Ciconumque Hymenaeus ad oras tendit et Orphea nequiquam voce vocatur. adfuit ille..."Metamorphoses IX
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...latum patefecerat orbem, cum Venus et Iuno sociosque Hymenaeus ad ignes conveniunt, potiturque sua puer Iphis Ianthe..."Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Gradivo conubio Procnes iunxit; non pronuba Iuno, non Hymenaeus adest, non illi Gratia lecto: Eumenides tenuere faces..."Metamorphoses IV
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...Andromedan et tanti praemia facti indotata rapit; taedas Hymenaeus Amorque praecutiunt; largis satiantur odoribus ignes, sertaque dependent tectis..."