Gamelia

(γαμηλία). A feast accompanied by offerings given by the father of a bridegroom or by the bridegroom himself to the members of his phratry, or rather to the οἰκεῖοι among the phratores, on which occasion the bride was introduced to and enrolled among the phratores (Harpocr. s. v. ἡ εἰς τοὺς φράτορας εἰσαγωγὴ τῶν γυναικῶν. Cf. Etym. Mag. p. 220, 50 foll.). Thus she became a sharer in her husband's sacra. This ceremony probably took place in the month of Gamelion (Mommsen, Heortol. p. 344). In Mommsen's opinion there is no difference in meaning between ἡ γαμηλία and τὰ γαμήλια.