epithalamium

ĕpĭthălămĭum, ii, n., = ἐπιθαλάμιον,

• a nuptial song, epithalamium, Treb. Poll. Gall. 11. Quintilian calls the wellknown Carmen nuptiale of Catullus (62) Epithalamium, Quint. 9, 3, 16.

epithalamium, iī, n. (ἐπιθαλάμιον), das Brautlied, das meist chorweise vor der Brautkammer (thalamus) abgesungen wurde (hingegen der hymenaeus bei der Heimführung der Braut), Quint. 9, 3, 16. Treb. Poll. Gallien. 11. § 7: sanctarum nuptiarum dulce canit epithalamium, Hieron. epist. 53, 8.

epithalamium [CL < ἐπιθαλάμιον] , epithalamium, bridal song; b (fig.); c (w. ref. to Psalm or Cant.). d bridal chamber (fig.); cf. thalamus. declinat parvi pendens ~ii elogium Aldh. VirgP 35; epitalamia apud Latinos inventa. hoc genus in scaenis celebratum est primum, postea tantum in nuptiis adhaesit Bonif. Met. 112; ymenaeus vel ~ium, brydsang, ‥ ~ium, carmen nubentium, giftleoð Ælf. Gl.; ~ium, carmen nuptiale Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 201.  b novae Dei ‥ nuptae [sc. monasterii] ‥ typicum concinamus epitalam[i]um V. Ed. Conf. 50; cantare novum cantici ~ium B. Cuthberto possumus quia ‥ prodigium de novitate ‥ mirabilium ‥ videre valemus‥. preclare ‥ virtutis miraculum quasi cantici ~ium est R. Cold. Cuthb. 22.  c 800 nostrum est ‥ continuis ‥ deplorare precibus ut nos suis dignas efficiat conviviis vobiscumque dulcissimum ~ii paradigma decantare: ‘introduxit nos rex in cellaria sua ‥’ [Cant. i 3] (Lit. abbatissae Calensis) Ep. Alcuin. 196; David, cum ‥ percutiens coram sponso citharam suam ‥ sacri ~ii carmina ‥ jubilaret, ait ‥ ‘dilexisti justitiam’ [etc. Psalm. xliv 8] J. Ford Serm. 10. 1; edidit Canticum Canticorum in quo ‥ desponsationis Christi et ecclesie canit ~ium Gros. Hexaem. proem. 97.  d c795 plura mihi de sanctissimo tui cordis ~io ‥ protulisti exempla Alcuin Ep. 86.

epithalamium , ii. n.
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EPITHALAMIUM

EPITHALA´MIUM[MATRIMONIUM]

Epithalamium

(τὸ ἐπιθαλάμιον μέλος). A nuptial song. (See matrimonium.) In Greek, Sappho, Anacreon, Stesichorus, and Pindar composed poems of this kind, of which, however, only fragments remain. We have three epithalamia of Catullus, of which that on the marriage of Peleus and Thetis is one of the most splendid in all literature. In the imperial age, Statius, Ausonius, Claudianus, Paulinus of Nola, Sidonius Apollinaris, Dracontius, Ennodius, Luxorius, Venantius Fortunatus wrote poems of the same class that have survived. Those of Ausonius and Luxorius are Vergilian centos. (See cento.) A collection of Latin epithalamia may be found in Wernsdorf's Poetae Latini Minores, iv. pt. ii. 462.