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παρθέν-ιος , α, ον, also ος, ον Pi.P.12.9, E.Ph.224 (lyr.) :—
A.of a maiden, maidenly, “λῦσε δὲ παρθενίην ζώνην” Od.11.245 ; “ὄαροι” Hes.Th.205 ; “ἔρως” Anacr.13A ; “κεφαλαί” Pi. l.c. ; “αἷμα” A.Ag.215 (lyr.); “χλιδά” E. Ph.224 (lyr.); “π. θύραι” of the temple of the Virgin Goddess, AP6.202 (Leon.); “παρθένιον βλέπειν” Anacr.4 ; π. αὐλός, v. αὐλός 1.1.
2. παρθένιος, ὁ, the son of an unmarried girl, Il.16.180 ; “παρθενία ὠδίς” Pi. O.6.31 ; but π. ἀνήρ the husband of maidenhood, first husband, Plu. Pomp.74.
II. metaph., pure, undefiled, Π. φρέαρ, name of a well, h.Cer.99 ; π. μύρτα, of white myrtle-berries, Ar.Av.1099 (lyr.).
III. π. γαῖα, = Samia terra, Nic.Al.149.
IV. Π., ὁ (sc. μήν), a month in Elis, Sch. Pi.O.3.35.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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