[26] πένθημα （Πενθῆα） : an instance of the fondness of the Greeks for seeing ominous significance in names; Eurip. Bacch. 367 Πενθεύσ--πένθος: Aesch. Agam. 686 ῾Ελέναν…ἐπεὶ πρεπόντ̣̣ς ἑλένας, ἕλανδρος, ἑλέπτολις ('Helen ship's Hell, man's Hell, city's Hell'--Browning). So Shakespeare, Rich. II, ii. 1 'Old John of Gaunt and gaunt in being old,' though here there is less thought of the name as ominous.
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The Idylls of Theocritus. R. J. Cholmeley, M.A. London. George Bell & Sons. 1901.
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