Every major character in Book 7 except Theseus uses the word to emphasize the importance of a relationship - Medea to Jason, Aegina to Athens, the marital bed of Cephalus and Procris:
Medea: et dabit ante fidem, cogamque in foedera testes esse deos. 46Such words in Ovid interweave disparate elements in the tales and show them to be related, even as each story speaks in its own way about relationship.
Aeacus: Cecropidis est hac tellus: ea foedera nobis.' 486
Minos: tristis abit 'stabunt' que 'tibi tua foedera magno' 487
Cephalus: auxilium foedusque refert et iura parentum, 503
Cephalus: primaque deserti referebam foedera lecti: 710
Procris: per nostri foedera lecti 850
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