Gamelius

"Of marriage." A surname of Zeus as presiding over marriages, which were celebrated on the first day of the month Gamelion (January/February). Similarly, Hera was called Gamelia.

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References

Source

  • A classical manual: being a mythological, historical, and geographical commentary on Pope's Homer and Dryden's Aeneid of Virgil. (1833). London: John Murray, p. 12.