Hymen

Hȳ̆men, ĕnis, and Hymĕnaeus or -os, i, m., = Humên, Humenaios, the god of marriage, of weddings, Hymen.

I.

Lit.:

dum illam educunt huc novam nuptam foras, suavi cantu concelebra omnem hanc plateam Hymenaeo! Io Hymen Hymenaee! Io Hymen!

Plaut. Cas. 4, 3, 1 sqq.;

15 sq.: jam veniet virgo, jam dicetur Hymenaeus. Hymen o Hymenaee, Hymen ades o Hymenaee,

Cat. 62, 5 (acc. to the Gr. Humên ô Humenaie); 62, 10 sq.;

for which: io Hymen Hymenaee io, Io Hymen Hymenaee,

id. 61, 124; 144 sq.:

vulgus Hymen Hymenaee vocant,

Ov. H. 14, 27; 12, 143:

nec quid Hymen, quid Amor, quid sint conubia, curat,

id. M. 1, 480:

Hymen,

id. H. 6, 44:

taedas Hymenaeus Amorque Praecutiunt,

id. M. 4, 758; so,

Hymenaeus,

id. ib. 6, 429; 9, 762 et saep.—

B.

Derivv.: Hymĕnēĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Hymen, Hymeneal:

lex, Mart. Cap. poët. 7, § 1: tripudia,

id. 2, § 132 al. —

II.

Transf.

A.

A nuptial song:

et subito nostras hymen cantatus ad aures Venit,

Ov. H. 12, 137:

hymenaeum qui cantent,

Ter. Ad. 5, 7, 7; Ov. M. 12, 215; Stat. S. 2, 7, 87.—Hence, Hymĕnāĭcus, a, um, adj., = humenaïkos, hymeneal, belonging to a nuptial song:

metrum,

Serv. de Cent. Metr. 3, 2.—

B.

Nuptials, a wedding:

hymen funestus illaetabilis,

Sen. Troad. 861:

conubio jungam stabili propriamque dicabo: Hic hymenaeus erit,

Verg. A. 4, 127:

(Helena) Pergama cum peteret inconcessosque hymenaeos,

id. ib. 1, 651; so in plur., Lucr. 4, 1251; Verg. A. 3, 328; 4, 99; Stat. Th. 3, 283.—

2.

Transf., of animals, Verg. G. 3, 60.