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nuptial
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The Odyssey, by Homer - (translated by: Pope)
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But Heaven, and all the Greeks, have heard my wrongs; To Heaven, and all the Greeks, redress belongs; Yet this I ask (nor be it ask'd in vain), A bark to waft me o'er the rolling main, The realms of Pyle and Sparta to explore, And seek my royal sire from shore to shore; If, or to fame his doubtful fate be known, Or to be learn'd from oracles alone, If yet he lives, with patience I forbear, Till the fleet hours restore the circling year; But if already wandering in the train Of empty shades, I measure back the main, Plant the fair column o'er the mighty dead, And yield his consort to the nuptial bed.†
Book 2

nuptial = of or relating to a wedding
And now proud Sparta with their wheels resounds, Sparta whose walls a range of hills surrounds; At the fair dome the rapid labour ends; Where sate Atrides 'midst his bridal friends, With double vows invoking Hymen's power, To bless his son's and daughter's nuptial hour.†
Book 4
Whene'er his influence Jove vouchsafes to shower, To bless the natal and the nuptial hour; From the great sire transmissive to the race, The boon devolving gives distinguish'd grace.†
Book 4 *
would a soft, inglorious, dastard train An absent hero's nuptial joys profane!†
Book 4
Bid Dolius quick attend, the faithful slave Whom to my nuptial train Icarius gave To tend the fruit groves: with incessant speed He shall this violence of death decreed To good Laertes tell.†
Book 4
She ceased; shrill ecstasies of joy declare The favouring goddess present to the prayer; The suitors heard, and deem'd the mirthful voice A signal of her hymeneal choice; Whilst one most jovial thus accosts the board: "Too late the queen selects a second lord; In evil hour the nuptial rite intends, When o'er her son disastrous death impends."†
Book 4
Pallas appearing in a dream in to Nausicaa (the daughter of Alcinous, king of Phaeacia, commands her to descend to the river, and wash the robes of state, in preparation for her nuptials.†
Book 6

nuptials = wedding ceremony and festivities
And just the blame: for female innocence Not only flies the guilt, but shuns the offence: The unguarded virgin, as unchaste, I blame; And the least freedom with the sex is shame, Till our consenting sires a spouse provide, And public nuptials justify the bride, But would'st thou soon review thy native plain?†
Book 6
The first by Phoebus' hurtling arrows fired, New from his nuptials, hapless youth!†
Book 7
Sullen and sour, with discontented mien, Jocasta frown'd, the incestuous Theban queen; With her own son she join'd in nuptial bands, Though father's blood imbrued his murderous hands The gods and men the dire offence detest, The gods with all their furies rend his breast; In lofty Thebes he wore the imperial crown, A pompous wretch!†
Book 11

nuptial = of or relating to a wedding
their crime, they were my friends: Thick as the boars, which some luxurious lord Kills for the feast, to crown the nuptial board.†
Book 11
The beauteous queen, advancing next, display'd The shining veil, and thus endearing said: "Accept, dear youth, this monument of love, Long since, in better days, by Helen wove: Safe in thy mother's care the vesture lay, To deck thy bride and grace thy nuptial day.†
Book 15
No—let Eurymachus receive my guest, Of nature courteous, and by far the best; He woos the queen with more respectful flame, And emulates her former husband's fame, With what success, 'tis Jove's alone to know, And the hoped nuptials turn to joy or woe.†
Book 15

nuptials = wedding ceremony and festivities
E'en I unsafe: the queen in doubt to wed, Or pay due honours to the nuptial bed.†
Book 16

nuptial = of or relating to a wedding
would a soft, inglorious, dastard train An absent hero's nuptial joys profane So with her young, amid the woodland shades, A timorous hind the lion's court invades, Leaves in that fatal lair her tender fawns, And climbs the cliffs, or feeds along the lawns; Meantime returning, with remorseless sway The monarch savage rends the panting prey: With equal fury, and with equal fame, Shall great Ulysses reassert his claim.†
Book 17
Their gifts the gods resumed (the queen rejoin'd), Exterior grace, and energy of mind, When the dear partner of my nuptial joy, Auxiliar troops combined, to conquer Troy.†
Book 19
From nuptial rites they now no more recede, And fear forbids to falsify the brede.†
Book 19
Now, wavering doubt succeeds to long despair; Shall I my virgin nuptial vow revere; And, joining to my son's my menial train, Partake his counsels, and assist his reign?†
Book 19
But whilst, to learn their lots in nuptial love, Bright Cytherea sought the bower of Jove (The God supreme, to whose eternal eye The registers of fate expanded lie; Wing'd Harpies snatch the unguarded charge away, And to the Furies bore a grateful prey.†
Book 20
Now press the sovereign dame with warm desire To wed, as wealth or worth her choice inspire: The lord selected to the nuptial joys Far hence will lead the long-contested prize: Whilst in paternal pomp with plenty bless'd, You reign, of this imperial dome possess'd.†
Book 20
Not the lost nuptials can affect me more (For Greece has beauteous dames on every shore), But baffled thus!†
Book 21

nuptials = wedding ceremony and festivities
Vast as some mighty column's bulk, on high The huge trunk rose, and heaved into the sky; Around the tree I raised a nuptial bower, And roof'd defensive of the storm and shower; The spacious valve, with art inwrought conjoins; And the fair dome with polished marble shines.†
Book 23

nuptial = of or relating to a wedding
But Euryclea, with dispatchful care, And sage Eurynome, the couch prepare; Instant they bid the blazing torch display Around the dome and artificial day; Then to repose her steps the matron bends, And to the queen Eurynome descends; A torch she bears, to light with guiding fires The royal pair; she guides them, and retires The instant his fair spouse Ulysses led To the chaste love-rites of the nuptial bed.†
Book 23

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