In Meletis et Antoninae Nuptias

Pierre-Louis Malosse mentioned this one on the Classics list … here’s the abstract:

The article offers the editio princeps with an Italian translation of the
Procopius of Gaza’s “Epithalamium for Meles and Antonina” from the ms. Athon. Mon. Dion. 347 (3881 Lambros), that first Spyridon Lambros had wrongly attributed to Aelius Aristides and very recently Constantin Raïos has considered to be of obscure paternity. This is a very important text (a gamēlios logos rather than kateunastikos), which allows us not only to appreciate a new aspect of the Procopius’s rhetorical art, but also to explain some debated points as regards the occasion and the place of the epithalamic epideixis. Remarkable is also its contribution for our
knowledge of the Greek nuptial rite, as well as for the Palestinian late antique prosopography and epigraphical vocabulary. A better understanding of a passage in the Damascius’s “Commentary on Plato’s Parmenides” is also enabled by this new text, in which it is possible to locate among other things an imitation of the Achilles Tatius’s novel and some anonymous poetic quotations or references. Really interesting and original is furthermore the description, in the proem, of the primordial world, most likely a paraphrase of the Empedoclean cosmogony. 

• via: Eugenio Amato, Un discorso inedito di Procopio di Gaza: In Meletis et Antoninae Nuptias(Revue des Etudes Tardo-Antiques 2011-2012)