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παρθένος , Lacon. παρσένος Ar.Lys.1263 (lyr.). ,
A.maiden, girl, Il.22.127, etc. ; αἱ ἄθλιαι π. ἐμαί my unhappy girls, S.OT1462, cf. Ar.Eq.1302 ; also “γυνὴ παρθένοςHes. Th.514; π. κόρα, of the Sphinx, dub. in E.Ph.1730 (lyr.); θυγάτηρ π. X.Cyr.4.6.9 ; of Persephone, E. Hel.1342 (lyr.), cf. S.Fr.804; virgin, opp. γυνή, Id.Tr.148, Theoc.27.65.
2. of unmarried women who are not virgins, Il.2.514, Pi.P.3.34, S.Tr.1219, Ar.Nu.530.
3. Παρθένος, , the Virgin Goddess, as a title of Athena at Athens, Paus.5.11.10, 10.34.8 (hence of an Att. coin bearing her head, E.Fr.675); of Artemis, E.Hipp.17 ; of the Tauric Iphigenia, Hdt.4.103 ; of an unnamed goddess, SIG46.3 (Halic., v B.C.), IG12.108.48,54 (Neapolis in Thrace); αἱ ἱεραὶ π., of the Vestal Virgins, D.H.1.69, Plu.2.89e, etc. ; αἱ Ἑστιάδες π. Id.Cic.19; simply, αἱ π. D.H.2.66.
4. the constellation Virgo, Eudox. ap. Hipparch. 1.2.5, Arat.97, etc.
5. = κόρη 111, pupil, X.ap.Longin.4.4, Aret. SD1.7.
II. as Adj., maiden, chaste, “παρθένον ψυχὴν ἔχωνE.Hipp. 1006, cf. Porph. Marc.33 ; μίτρη π. Epigr.Gr.319 : metaph., “π. πηγήA.Pers.613.
III. as masc., παρθένος, , unmarried man, Apoc.14.4.
IV. π. γῆ Samian earth (cf. “παρθένιος111), PMag.Berol.2.57.
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