The Tragic Story of Petale, Greek Anthology ix.245

 His thalamis Hymenaeus abest, thalamis niger istis

Orcus adest, struxit quos Petale misera.

Nam *sola*, primam venerem dum nocte recusat

atque fugit (solet hic virginis esse timor).

Discerpsere canes. Speratur quae fore coniux,

hanc vel defunctam nullus habere potest.

Δυσμοίρων θαλάμων ἐπὶ παστάσιν οὐχ Ὑμέναιος,

ἀλλ᾽ Ἀίδης ἔστη πικρογάμου Πετάλης.

δείματι γὰρ μούνην πρωτόζυγα Κύπριν ἀν᾽ ὄρφνην

φεύγουσαν, ξυνὸν παρθενικαῖσι φόβον,

φρουροδόμοι νηλεῖς κύνες ἔκτανον: ἣν δὲ γυναῖκα

ἐλπὶς ἰδεῖν, ἄφνως ἔσχομεν οὐδὲ νέκυν.

-- Antiphanes, Greek Anthology ix.245; translated into Latin by  Henricus Stephanus (1613)

Not Hymen, but Hades

Attended Petale’s ill-fated wedding night.

For when the newlywed fled in fear

Through the darkness

From her first taste of love

[a common fear for maidens],

Guard dogs tore her limb from limb.

The hope we had in seeing her wed

Is now undone by her corpse.

ANTIPHANES	MAP:
Name: Antiphanes   Date:  408 – 334 BCE Works:  [fragments]	REGION  5
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Antiphanes’ origins are unclear, but he is known for writing hundreds of comedies in Athens in the 4th century. Unfortunately, these comedies only survive as fragments.	HELLENISTIC GREEK

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Name:  ???? Date:  Works:  Greek Anthology; Anthologia Graeca; Florilegii Graecii	REGION  UNKNOWN
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The Greek Anthology is a modern collection of Greek lyric poetry compiled from various sources over the course of Greco-Roman literature. The current collection was created from two major sources, one from the 10th century CE and one from the 14th century CE. The anthology contains authors spanning the entirety of Greek literature, from archaic poets to Byzantine Christian poets.	Byzantine Greek