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Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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Words With Similar Definitions
Greek1: kouridios 2: athemitogamia 3: miaigamia 4: kakogamiou 5: sungamos
Latin1: conjugium 2: nuptus 3: nuptialis 4: conubium 5: matrimonium
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Words That Regularly Appear With gamos
In Perseus Texts:thugatêrgameôpaisparthenoskorê
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gamos [a^], ho, wedding, Hom. Il. 5.4.29, al.; gamoi eilapinai te au=Hom. Il. 18.491; gamon teuchein furnish forth a wedding, Hom. Od. 1.277; g. dainunai au=Hom. Od. 4.3; artuein IBID=au=Hom. Od. 4.770=lr; gamon poiein Herod.7.86, Test.Epict.2.19: pl., gamous dittous hestian Isaeus 8.9; of a single wedding, oikositous tous g. poieisthai Men.450; gamous poiein Dem. 30.21, Ev.Matt.22.2; epitelein g. tês thugatros Arist.Fr.549, cf. Diod. 13.84; hoi keklêmenoi eis tous g. Diph. 17.2; en tois g. aklêtos eisdedukenai Apollod.Car.24.

II. marriage, wedlock, Hom. Il. 13.382, etc.; agein [gunaika] epi gamôi Xen. Anab. 2.4.8; agagesthai tina pros gamon Plu.Cat.Ma.24; ton Oineôs g. the marriage granted by O., Soph. Trach. 792; g. theôn tinos Eur. Tro. 979, cf. ti=Eur. IT 25; eis g. tinos elthein IDEM=Eur. IA 1044 (lyr.); more freq. in pl., Aesch. PB 558 (lyr.), au=Aesch. PB 739 (lyr.), ti=Aesch. Ag. 1156 (lyr.), etc.; cf. gameô 1: also tois methêmerinois gamois, i.e. prostitution, Dem. 18.129; Panos anaboai gamous, i.e. rape, Eur. Hel. 190 (lyr.); of unlawful wedlock, as of Paris and Helen, IDEM=Eur. Tro. 932; gamoi arrenes Luc.VH1.22; g. andreioi Procop.Arc.16.23:--

  • Eur. Andr. 103, Xen. Cyrop. 8.4.19, do not establish the sense of a wife; for Eur. Tro. 357, v. gameô I.1.

    III. hieros g. 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. Gamos personified, Philox.13, Lib.Or.5.27.

    VI. name of month at Epidaurus, IG4.1485,au=IG 4.1492=lr. (Perh. akin to Skt. jām&icute;s 'brother or sister', Lat. geminus.)