| Liddell-Scott-Jones Lexicon of Classical Greek
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| Words That Regularly Appear With gameô |
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ga^meô, fut. gameô Hom. Il. 9.388,au=Hom. Il. 9.391=lr, contr. gamô Aesch. PB 764, Soph. OT 1500, ti=Soph. Ant. 750, Eur. Orest. 1655, Xen. Cyrop. 5.2.12, etc.; later gamêsô Plu.2.386c, Luc.Rh.Pr.8 (for gamêseis ti=Luc. Tim.52 leg. gamêseieis): aor. 1 egêma Hom. Il. 14.121, etc.; later egamêsa LXXEs.10.3, Ev.Marc.6.17, Luc.D Deor. au=Luc. 5.4, etc. (cf. infr. II.2): pf. gegamêka Aristoph. Lys. 595, Plat. Laws 877e: plpf. egegamêkei Thuc. 1.126:-- Med., fut. Ep. gamessetai Hom. Il. 9.394 codd., Att. gamoumai Eur. Phoen. 1673, Aristoph. Thes. 900, later gamêsomai Plu.Art. 26, etc.: aor. egêmamên Hom. Od. 16.392, Anacr.86, Isaeus 5.5, etc.:--Pass., fut. gamêthêsomai J.AJ6.13.8, Ant.Lib.1.2, D.C.58.3, Hld.5.30, etc.: aor. egamêthên D.H.11.34, Strab. 10.4.20, etc.: poet. shortd. gametheisa v.l. in Theoc.8.91, cf. Eust.758.52: pf. gegamêmai Xen. Anab. 4.5.24, Dem. 36.32: plpf. egegamêto App.BC4.23: (gamos):--marry, i.e. take to wife, of the man, Adrêstoio d' egême thugatrôn one of his daughters, Hom. Il. 14.121; entha d' egême gunaika Hom. Od. 15.241; g. gunaika es oikia, like agesthai, Hdt. 4.78: c. acc. cogn., gamon gamein Aesch. PB 764,au=Aesch. PB 909; ton Helenês gamon . . gêmas Eur. IA 467; gêmai gektra basileôs the king's daughter, IDEM=Eur. Med. 594: rarely c. dupl. acc., gamous tous prôtous egamee Kurou duo thugateras (for prôton egamee . . thugateras) Hdt. 3.88, cf. Eur. Tro. 357; also gamôi g. marry in lawful wedlock, Dem. 39.26; ek kakou, ex agathou gêmai, marry a wife of mean or noble stock, Thgn.189, au=Thgn. 190; ek meionôn Xen. Hiero 1.28; ek gennaiôn Eur. Andr. 1279; para tinos IBID=au=Eur. Andr. 975, Plat. Stat. 310c; epi thugatri g. allên gunaika set a stepmother over one's daughter, Hdt. 4.154, cf. Eur. Alc. 372; epi deka talantois tina gamein marry a wife with a dowry of ten talents, Andoc. 4.13.
2. of mere sexual intercourse, take for a paramour, Hom. Od. 1.36, Luc.Asin.32; g. biaiôs skotion lechos Eur. Tro. 44.
3. later of the woman, ean gamêsêi allon Ev.Marc.10.12: abs., 1 Ep.Cor.7.28.
II. Med., give oneself or one's child in marriage:
1. of the woman, give herself in marriage, i.e. wed, c. dat., gameesthai tôi hoteôi te patêr keletai Hom. Od. 2.113; gêmamenê hôi huiï: ho d' hon pater' exenarixas gêmen au=Hom. Od. 11.273: abs., Hdt. 4.117; soi men gameisthai morsimon, gamein d' emoi A.Fr.13; eis turann' egêmamên I married into a royal house, Eur. Tro. 474; gêmato d' eis Marathôna, i. e. she married Herodes of Marathon, IG14.1389 i 5 (hên t' egêmato is f.l. for hê t' eg. in Eur. Med. 262): ironically of a henpecked husband, keinos ouk egêmen all' egêmato Anacr.86; so Medea to Jason, môn gamousa . . se; did I marry you? Eur. Med. 606; egêmamên, of a man marrying a rich wife, Antiph.46; gameitai hekastos (sens. obsc.) Luc.VH1.22; ho gamêtheis hôs parthenos kapeita genomenos anêr Phld.Sign.2; incorrectly, in later writers, gêmamenos Apollod. 3.12.6, cf. Q.S. 1.728.
2. of parents, get their children married, betroth them, get a wife for the son, Pêleus thên moi epeita gunaika gamessetai autos (where Aristarch. ge massetai will seek or make suit for) Hom. Il. 9.394:--- Act. aor. 1 egamêsa in this sense, Men.885.
III. Pass., to be taken to wife: hence, marry a husband, Il.cc. ad init., PGrenf.2.76.11 (iv A. D.), etc.; rarely in correct authors, Poll.3.45.
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