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γάμον (gamon)

γάμον is an Ancient Greek form of γάμος, meaning “marriage, wedding”. It is the accusative singular masculine noun.

Found 436 times in the Ancient Greek texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Apollonius Rhodius, Argonautica 2.511: τῷ καὶ ἀεξηθέντι θεαὶ γάμον ἐμνήστευσαν

Appianus of Alexandria, Civil Wars 5.6.53: … μὴ τὴν Ἰταλίαν περιπλέοντες ἐς λιμὸν περιενέγκαιεν. ὧν ἐνθυμούμενος ʽἐλέλεκτο δὲ αὐτῷ περὶ πολλῶν παρθένων ἐς γάμον’ ἐπέστελλε Μαικήνᾳ συνθέσθαι Σκριβωνίᾳ, τῇ Λίβωνος ἀδελφῇ, τοῦ κηδεύοντος Πομπηίῳ, ἵνʼ ἔχοι καὶ τήνδε ἀφορμὴν …

All forms of γάμος (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Liddell-Scott-Jones, A Greek-English Lexicon (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.