γάμος

gamos

wedding

Appears 11 times across Aristotle's works.

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Rhetoric 3
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Book II 1
Chapter 9 1386b8–1387b21

1387a29
Book III 2
Chapter 10 1410b6–1411b21

1411a20
1411a20
Eudemian Ethics 2
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Book III 2
Chapter 6 1233a31–1233b15

1233b2
1233b10
Nicomachean Ethics 2
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Book IV 1
Chapter 2 1122a18–1123a33

1123a1
Book IX 1
Chapter 2 1164b22–1165a35

1165a18
Politics 2
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Book V 2
Chapter 6 1305a37–1306b21

1306a33
1306a36
Metaphysics 1
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Book Μ 1
Chapter 4 1078b7–1079b11

1078b23
De Mirabilibus Auscultationibus 1
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Chapter 159 846a31–32

846a31

Dictionary (LSJ)

γάμος [ᾰ], ὁ, A. wedding, Il. 5.4.29, al.; γάμοι εἰλαπίναι τε 18.491; γάμον τεύχειν furnish forth a wedding, Od. 1.277; γ. δαινύναι 4.3; ἀρτύειν ib.770; γάμον ποιεῖν Herod. 7.86, Test.Epict. 2.19: pl., γάμους διττοὺς ἑστιᾶν Is. 8.9; of a single wedding, οἰκοσίτους τοὺς γ. ποιεῖσθαι Men. 450; γάμους ποιεῖν D. 30.21, Ev.Matt. 22.2; ἐπιτελεῖν γ. τῆς θυγατρός Arist. Fr. 549, cf. D.S. 13.84; οἱ κεκλημένοι εἰς τοὺς γ. Diph. 17.2; ἐν τοῖς γ. ἄκλητος εἰσδεδυκέναι Apollod.Car. 24. II. marriage, wedlock, Il. 13.382, etc.; ἄγειν [γυναῖκα] ἐπὶ γάμῳ X. An. 2.4.8; ἀγαγέσθαι τινὰ πρὸς γάμον Plu. Cat.Ma. 24; τὸν Οἰνέως γ. the marriage granted by O., S. Tr. 792; γ. θεῶν τινος E. Tr. 979, cf. IT 25; εἰς γ. τινὸς ἐλθεῖν Id. IA 1044 (lyr.); more freq. in pl., A. Pr. 558 (lyr.), 739 (lyr.), Ag. 1156 (lyr.), etc.; cf. γαμέω I: also τοῖς μεθημερινοῖς γάμοις, i.e. prostitution, D. 18.129; Πανὸς ἀναβοᾷ γάμους, i.e. rape, E. Hel. 190 (lyr.); of unlawful wedlock, as of Paris and Helen, Id. Tr. 932; γάμοι ἄρρενες Luc. VH 1.22; γ. ἀνδρεῖοι Procop. Arc. 16.23:—E. Andr. 103, X. Cyr. 8.4.19, do not establish the sense of a wife; for E. Tr. 357, v. γαμέω I.1. III. ἱερὸς γ. ritual marriage, Men. 320, Hsch., EM 468.56; 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. Γάμος personified, Philox. 13, Lib. Or. 5.27. VI. name of month at Epidaurus, IG 4.1485,1492. (Perh. akin to Skt. jāmís ‘brother or sister’, Lat. geminus.)

Key passages & sense analysis (Bonitz)

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