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Snails (medicine) and epithalamium (sh)


Snails (medicine)


snails
Marine, freshwater, or terrestrial mollusks of the class gastropoda. most have an enclosing spiral shell, and several genera harbor parasites pathogenic to man.


epithalamium (sh)




or epithalamion

Nuptial song or poem in honour or praise of a bride and bridegroom.

In ancient Greece such songs were a traditional way of invoking good fortune on a Marriage and often of indulging in ribaldry. The earliest evidence for literary epithalamiums are fragments by Sappho; the oldest surviving Latin examples are three by Catullus. In the Renaissance, epithalamiums based on classical models were written in Italy, France, and England; that of Edmund Spenser (1595) is considered the finest in English.