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Quid expectatis, intus fiunt nuptiae, the music, guests, and all the good cheer is within.
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So these men, &c. Seneca therefore disallows all such unseasonable matches, habent enim maledicti locum crebrae nuptiae.
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Jucundiores multo et suaviores longe post molestas turbas amantium nuptiae.
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Natalitia inquit celebrantur, nuptiae hic sunt; at ibi quid celebratur quod non dolet, quod non transit?
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The panelling was of Italian intarsia work inlaid with a renaissance design portraying the tale of Cupid and Psyche; on the final panel Jupiter was handing the cup of ambrosia to Psyche with the words, '_Sume, Psyche, et immortalis esto, nec unquam digridietur a tuo nexu Cupido, sed istae vobis erunt perpetuae nuptiae_'; the floor was formed of parquetry, and the rugs above were of fine Persian workmanship.
Border Ghost Stories Howard Pease
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[Footnote B: The use of wine was forbidden at the festival called the _Cereris nuptiae_.] _Pyth.
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Docemus, contrahenda esse conjugia legitime in timore Domini, et non contra leges, prohibentes aliquot in conjugio gradus, ne incestae fiant nuptiae.
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The "Orci nuptiae" on which Frazer lays stress was simply the Greek marriage of Pluto and Proserpine: "Orci coniux Proserpina," Aug. _C. D._ vii. 23 and 28, Agahd, p. 152.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Hoc pacto: contra coelibes iuratos et votos in castimoniam, quod nuptiae bonae sint, virginitas melior, offeruntur Scripturae loquentes honorifice de coniugio.
Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560
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& Aerope, & aureum vellus, & Pelopeiae nuptiae, & cae - des Agamemnonis, & poena Cly taemneftrae: & ante haec etiam feptem ducum ad Thebas expeditio, receptioque ge - nererum Adrafti exfulum, oraculumque de illis, & infe - pulri qui ibi cecideranr, & Antigones propter ifta Menoe - ceique interitus.
Luciani Samosatensis Opera Graece et Latine: : ad editionem Tiberii ... Lucian, Llucià (, Luciano de Samosata , Samosatenus Lucianus , Tiberius Hemsterhuis , Johann Frederik Reitz , Societas Bipontina , Io Fred Reitzius , Iac Nic Belin de Ballu, Societas Bipontina, Typographia Bipontina ( 1790
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