Liber Aureolus de Nuptiis of Theophrastus, as cited by St. Jerome near the end of the first Book of his treatise against Jovinian.
Martianus Minneus Felix Capella, a native of Carthage, was a writer of the fifth century, and wrote the Nuptials of Philology and Mercury, De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii.
This was the De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, by Martianus Capella.
Tam apta nuptiis quam bruma messibus, as welcome to a young woman as snow in harvest, saith Nevisanus: Et si capis juvenculam, faciet tibi cornua: marry a lusty maid and she will surely graft horns on thy head.
The passage quoted from Augustine is in “De nuptiis et concupiscentia ad Valerium,” l.
The passage in question occurs in De nuptiis et concupiscentia (l.
It is not easy to remain unmoved at the thought of the medieval industry bestowed on authors like Martianus Capella de Nuptiis Philologiae, or Macrobius de Somnio Scipionis.
As to the Latin fathers, we have the most ample evidence that Chaucer had very carefully studied the treatise of St. Jerome against Jovinian, which happens to include all that is known of the Liber Aureolus de Nuptiis by Theophrastus.
This little allegory savours of the De consolatione of Boethius, or, if one will, of Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae.
But the poet apparently is following the De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii of Martianus Capella, ante, Chapter IV.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "nuptiis" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
