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νυμφα^γωγ-ός , όν,
A.leader of the bride, E.IA610 ; esp. one who leads her from her home to the bridegroom's house, Luc.DDeor.20.16 ; esp. in case of a second marriage, Poll.3.41, Eust.652.45 : metaph., of the Argo, as bearing Medea, “ν. τρόπιν” Lyc.1025.
2. generally, friend, LXXGe.21.22,Jd.14.20.
II. one who negotiates a marriage for another, Plu.2.329f. Cf. νυμφευτής.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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