Philostratus more youthful, Imagines 10 (trans. Fairbanks) (Greek rhetorician C3rd A beneficial.D.) : “Perform the light of your own torches, in addition to relationship hymn (hymenaios), the new voice of one’s flutes together with twanging of your lyre additionally the rhythmic actions of one’s performers desire your focus? The truth is plus the women apparent from the vestibules while they surprise and all sorts of however, cry to own delight. This can be a married relationship, my boy, the initial gathering of bridesmaids, while the bridegrooms are providing the brides.” [Letter.B. The marriage-hymn (hymenaios) is not personified right here, but the passage demonstrates the lay when you look at the wedding.]
New morning’s glow shown the world; Venus [Aphrodite], Juno [Hera] and you may Hymenaeus entered to bless the wedding rite; the like are sanctified, and you will Iphis achieved Ianthe, wedding couple
Ovid, Metamorphoses 4. 757 ff (trans.