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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Plural of epithalamium.
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“Next in frequency are the applications for private literary contributions, -- such as epithalamia, obituaries, addresses for lovers, and the like.”
“The bride was lighted to bed by a number of torches, according to her quality; and the company returned in the morning to salute the new married couple, and to sing _epithalamia_ at the door of their bed-chamber.”
“Lucretia was showered with sonnets and epithalamia.”
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
“It is not known who was the fortunate orator, but we are familiar with the names of some of the poets who addressed epithalamia to the beautiful princess.”
Lucretia Borgia According to Original Documents and Correspondence of Her Day
“Some were _epithalamia_, or songs composed to celebrate marriages; others to commemorate a victory, or the accession of a prince; to return thanks to the Deity, or to celebrate his praises; to lament a general calamity, or a private affliction; and others, again, were peculiar to their festive meetings.”
“Before the door of the bridal chamber epithalamia were sung, a charming specimen of which we possess in the bridal hymn of”
“The poems are the three panegyrics with their appendixes; two epithalamia; an acknowledgment to Faustus of Reji (now Riez), a eulogy of Narbonne, or rather, of two citizens of Narbonne; a description of the castle (burgas) of Leontius, etc.”
“Two of his epithalamia, a form of composition rare in Irish literature, have been preserved.”
“Hardly any kind of Hebrew poesy is absent; epithalamia and lamentations; little satirical songs; odes of wonderful lyrism etc. The fundamental law of Hebrew poetry, the parallelism of the stichs, is usually observed.”
“While in no degree Shakespearian echoes, there are epithalamia and dirges of his that might properly have fallen from the lips of Posthumus in "Cymbeline.”
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