Marriage

for the marriage of others is of one mind toward soft living, but that of those who philosophize leads to the concord according to reason — the marriage that bids the women adorn not their form but their character, and does not enjoin the men to use their wives as mistresses, having made the outrage of bodies their aim, but to win marriage as a help in the whole of life and the best temperance.

Marriage, then, must be kept pure, like some sacred image, from the things that defile it — by those who rise from sleep with the Lord, and go to sleep with thanksgiving and prayer, "both when you lie down and when the holy light comes," calling the Lord to witness throughout the whole of our life — having gained godliness in the soul, and bringing temperance even to the body.

Since marriage seems to fall under pleasure and desire, we must treat of this too.

For what beaver is so great a self-mutilator of the flesh as the man who has abolished marriage?

defending wedlock outright then, finally, when it is enemy-wise accused under the name of foulness, to the destruction of the Creator, who accordingly blessed wedlock for the honesty of the thing toward the increase of the human race, just as He blessed the whole of creation for whole and good uses.

Even now, the god of Marcion, who opposes marriage, how can he seem a lover of little ones, whose whole cause is marriage?

So Zeus the Father gave her an high honor instead of marriage, and she has her place in the midst of the house and has the richest portion.

For there were many of us, nymphs and marriageable maidens, playing together;

First is the daughter of Zeus who holds the aegis, bright-eyed Athena;

Furthermore, I had no patience with the perversity of men who take women in marriage and make them partners in all the relations of life, and then are not satisfied with the compacts which they have made but by their own lawless pleasures bring pain to those whom they expect never to cause them pain and who, though honest in all other partnerships, are without conscience in the partnership of marr …

For it is permitted to those who wish to share in marriage—but not to those who have once promised to keep their virginity for Christ.

" she, composing her bearing and her glance and her voice and her whole self for enticement, said, "Join yourself to me in the fellowship of marriage, and I shall gladly follow your commands.

Moreover McLennan's doctrine of the origin of the family did not long delay in falling by what the critics wrote upon it, and especially Morgan, the American scholar, author of the book The Ordering of Society among the Ancients, who demonstrated that in-marriage does not conflict with mother-right.

and the Arab calls his wife the daughter of his paternal uncle even when she is not so, because the prevailing thing in marriage with them is that it be between the children of the paternal uncle, with varying degrees of that uncleship.

The Brāhma, Daiva, Ārṣa, Prājāpatya, Gāndharva, Āsura, Rākṣasa, and Paiśāca.

The giving of a maiden to a man of good qualities, after inviting him, is the *brāhma* (the Brāhma form of marriage).

Now, there are eight forms of marriage.

I may venture to remind you that, according to the English law, the only process of legitimating children is by the marriage of their parents before the birth of such children.

From the earliest times we find two modes of legitimating children—the process of adoption and the process of marriage.

So far as the above three reasons are concerned, it would seem that a system of legitimation might be devised in every way simpler and more convenient than that of marriage alone.

At last, the banqueters, seeing them in each other’s embrace and obviously leaving for the bridal couch, those who were unwedded swore that they would take to themselves wives, and those who were already married mounted horse and rode off to their wives that they might enjoy them.