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The History of the Manners and Customs of Ancient Greece, Volume 1 (of 3)

Note 1195 — Chapter III · CONDITION OF UNMARRIED WOMEN.—LOVE.

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Soph. Antig. 635. sqq.—Καὶ ἐν εὐτυχίαις συνευτύχει καὶ ἀποθανόντι συναποθνήσκει, Max. Tyr. ix. 116. We discover the same idea in our own marriage ceremony, where husband and wife are said to be joined together, “for better for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health.”

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