ὑμέναι-ος [ῠ], ὁ,
(Ὑμήν) the wedding or bridal song, sung by the bride's attendants as they led her to the bridegroom's house, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 18.493, 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Scutum Herculis” 274, 4th-5th c.BC: Aeschylus Tragicus “Agamemnon” 707 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 1036 (Lyric poetry, assuming variant): _plural_, παμφώνων ἰαχὰ ὑμεναίων 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.17, cf. 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Alcestis” 922 (_anapaest meter_)] Refs 8th c.BC+], etc.: Aeolic dialect ὐμήνᾰος [[ 7th-6th c.BC: Sappho Lyrica 91, “epigram Gr.” 418.7 (from Cyrene)] Refs 7th c.BC+]: a form ὑμήναιος in [[ 3rd c.BC: Callimachus Epicus “Aetia” 3.1.43. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 wedding, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 422, 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Ion” 1475 (Lyric poetry): _plural_, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Antigone” 813 (Lyric poetry), 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Iphigenia Aulidensis” 123 (Lyric poetry), 1st c.BC: Philodemus Gadarensis Epigrammaticus “Mus.” p.68K. ] Refs 5th c.BC+]
__II ={Ὑμήν}, Hymen, the god of marriage, addressed in wedding-songs, frequently in Trag. and Comedy texts (Lyric poetry), Ὑμὴν ὦ Υμέναι᾽ ἄναζ [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Troades” 314 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Ὑμὴν ὦ Ὑμέναι᾽ Ὑμήν[[ [prev. work] 331; Ὑμὴν Ὑμέναι᾽ ὦ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Pax” 1335; Ὑμὴν ὦ, Ὑμέναι᾽ ὦ [prev. author] “Av.” 1736, 1742 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; Doric dialect Ὑμὰν ὦ Ὑμέναιε [[ 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 18.58 ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]; hence the two are used as one word, ὑμὴν ὑμέναιον ἀείδων [[ 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 1.341. ] Refs 3rd c.AD+]