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Definition of Epithalamia
1. epithalamion [n] - See also: epithalamion
Lexicographical Neighbors of Epithalamia
Literary usage of Epithalamia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Restituta: Or, Titles, Extracts, and Characters of Old Books in English by Egerton Brydges (1814)
"... Why he ha, thought proper to insert in this work entire reprints of two of
Wither's pieces, the Obsequies of Prince Henry, and the epithalamia. ..."
2. Selected Fragments of Roman Poetry: From the Earliest Times of the Republic by William Walter Merry (1898)
"(82-47 Ao) THE friend (and, sometimes, the butt) of Catullus. A man perhaps more
eminent as a barrister than as a poet. epithalamia. ..."
3. Epideictic Literature by Theodore C. Burgess (1902)
"... the singer of epithalamia par excellence, and his own model, though Apollo
was the first to sing the marriage hymn. Menander cites Hesiod.2 Prose Poems ..."
4. The Roman Poets of the Republic by William Young Sellar (1905)
"It is written in hexameter verse, and in rhythm, thought, and feeling resembles
some of the golden fragments from the epithalamia of Sappho. ..."
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