Others girl, in love are hopeless, prayed the marriage-god so you can haste

Philostratus little, Imagines ten (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C3rd A good.D.) : «Do the white of torches, while the matrimony hymn (hymenaios), this new voice of your flutes therefore the twanging of one’s lyre and the rhythmical activity of the dancers attention their attention? You can see in addition to the female noticeable through the vestibules while they question and all but scream having contentment. That is a marriage, my boy, the initial gathering of your bridal party, in addition to bridegrooms are delivering their brides.» [Letter.B. The marriage-hymn (hymenaios) isn’t personified right here, however the passage demonstrates its set within the marriage service.]