μελλόνυμφος
ὡς αἰεὶ τὸν ὁμοῖον ἄγει θεὸς ὡς τὸν ὁμοῖον → how God ever brings like men together | birds of a feather flock together | how the god always leads like to like | as ever, god brings like and like together | as always the god brings like to like
English (LSJ)
ον,
A about to be betrothed or wedded, esp. of females, S.Ant.633, D.C.58.7, Epigr.Gr. 364.3 (Cotiaeum); rarely of the male, Phryn.Com.78 (prob. for -νύμφιος), Lyc.174: in S.Tr.207 (lyr.), ἀνολολυξάτω (-ύξετε codd.) δόμοις . . ὁ μελλόνυμφος, we shd. read either δόμος . . ὁ μ. the maidens of the household or δόμοις . . ἁ (sc. κλαγγά) the shout of the maidens.
German (Pape)
[Seite 125] der Vermählung nahe, Bräutigam, Braut; Soph. Ant. 629, vgl. Trach. 206; sp. D., wie Lycophr. 174; auch D. Cass.; fem. auch μελλονύμφη, Poll. 3, 45 u. Eust. 945, 17.
