Γαμηλία
wedding-feast
Translated by David Whitehead13 Oct 2000Vetting: high5 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the one given for the phratry-members at marriages. Or [the one associated with] the introduction of wives to the phratry-members. So Didymus the grammarian.1 And [there is] a saying.2
To bring in a wedding-feast: whenever someone married a wife [and] before a child was produced, this man testified about the marriage in accordance with the marriages3 by providing something for his phratry-members by way of festivity. And this is "bringing in a wedding-feast". Demosthenes mentions the term in his speech Against Euboulides, when he says "and there has been testimony that my father married [my mother] in accordance with the laws and brought in a wedding-feast for the phratry-members".4
To bring in a wedding-feast: whenever someone married a wife [and] before a child was produced, this man testified about the marriage in accordance with the marriages3 by providing something for his phratry-members by way of festivity. And this is "bringing in a wedding-feast". Demosthenes mentions the term in his speech Against Euboulides, when he says "and there has been testimony that my father married [my mother] in accordance with the laws and brought in a wedding-feast for the phratry-members".4
Greek original · Adler’s text
Γαμηλία· ἡ διδομένη τοῖς φράτορσιν ἐπὶ γάμοις. ἢ τῶν γυναικῶν ἡ εἰς τοὺς φράτορας εἰσαγωγή. οὕτως Δίδυμος ὁ γραμματικός. καὶ παροιμία. Γαμηλίαν εἰσενεγκεῖν. ὅταν τις ἠγάγετο γυναῖκα, πρὶν γενέσθαι παῖδα, οὗτος μαρτυρόμενος περὶ τοῦ γάμου κατὰ τοὺς γάμους ἀπεδίδου τι τοῖς φράτορσιν εἰς λόγον εὐωχίας. καὶ τοῦτό ἐστι γαμηλία εἰσενεγκεῖν. μέμνηται τοῦ λόγου Δημοσθένης ἐν τῷ πρὸς Εὐβουλίδην λόγῳ· καὶ γὰρ ὅτι ὁ πατήρ μου κατὰ τοὺς νόμους ἔγημε καὶ γαμηλίαν τοῖς φράτορσιν εἰσενήνοχε, μεμαρτύρηται.
Betacode
*gamhli/a: h( didome/nh toi=s fra/torsin e)pi\ ga/mois. h)\ tw=n gunaikw=n h( ei)s tou\s fra/toras ei)sagwgh/. ou(/tws *di/dumos o( grammatiko/s. kai\ paroimi/a. *gamhli/an ei)senegkei=n. o(/tan tis h)ga/geto gunai=ka, pri\n gene/sqai pai=da, ou(=tos marturo/menos peri\ tou= ga/mou kata\ tou\s ga/mous a)pedi/dou ti toi=s fra/torsin ei)s lo/gon eu)wxi/as. kai\ tou=to/ e)sti gamhli/a ei)senegkei=n. me/mnhtai tou= lo/gou *dhmosqe/nhs e)n tw=| pro\s *eu)bouli/dhn lo/gw|: kai\ ga\r o(/ti o( path/r mou kata\ tou\s no/mous e)/ghme kai\ gamhli/an toi=s fra/torsin ei)senh/noxe, memartu/rhtai.
Notes (4)
- 1Didymus pp.315 and 320 Schmidt (i.e. he is the source, as the equivalent entry in Harpokration shows, of both of these definitions). ↩
- 2On Adler's punctuation, no such saying is cited, and one would have to regard these words as an intrusion from somewhere else. Alternatively, 'to bring in a wedding-feast' is the 'saying' referred to. ↩
- 3Given the Demosthenic passage which follows, this is a slip for "in accordance with the laws". ↩
- 4Demosthenes 57.43, here loosely quoted. ↩
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