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|Definition=Lacon. παρσένος <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>1263</span> (lyr.). ἡ, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[maiden]], [[girl]], <span class="bibl">Il.22.127</span>, etc. ; <b class="b3">αἱ ἄθλιαι π. ἐμαί</b> my unhappy [[girls]], <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">OT</span>1462</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>1302</span> ; also γυνὴ παρθένος <span class="bibl">Hes. <span class="title">Th.</span>514</span>; <b class="b3">π. κόρα</b>, of the Sphinx, dub. in <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1730</span> (lyr.); <b class="b3">θυγάτηρ π</b>. <span class="bibl">X.<span class="title">Cyr.</span>4.6.9</span> ; of Persephone, <span class="bibl">E. <span class="title">Hel.</span>1342</span> (lyr.), cf. <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Fr.</span>804</span>; [[virgin]], opp. [[γυνή]], <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Tr.</span>148</span>, <span class="bibl">Theoc.27.65</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">2</span> of unmarried women who are not virgins, <span class="bibl">Il.2.514</span>, <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">P.</span>3.34</span>, <span class="bibl">S.<span class="title">Tr.</span>1219</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Nu.</span>530</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">3</span> <b class="b3">Παρθένος, ἡ</b>, [[the Virgin Goddess]], as a title of Athena at Athens, <span class="bibl">Paus.5.11.10</span>, <span class="bibl">10.34.8</span> (hence of an Att. coin bearing her head, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Fr.</span>675</span>); of Artemis, <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span>17</span> ; of the Tauric Iphigenia, <span class="bibl">Hdt.4.103</span> ; of an unnamed goddess, <span class="title">SIG</span>46.3 (Halic., v B.C.), <span class="title">IG</span>12.108.48,54 (Neapolis in Thrace); <b class="b3">αἱ ἱεραὶ π</b>., of the Vestal Virgins, <span class="bibl">D.H.1.69</span>, Plu.2.89e, etc. ; <b class="b3">αἱ Ἑστιάδες π</b>. <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cic.</span>19</span>; simply, <b class="b3">αἱ π</b>. <span class="bibl">D.H.2.66</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">4</span> the constellation <span class="title">Virgo</span>, Eudox. ap. <span class="bibl">Hipparch. 1.2.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.97</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">5</span> = [[κόρη]] <span class="bibl">111</span>, [[pupil]], X.ap.Longin.<span class="bibl">4.4</span>, <span class="bibl">Aret. <span class="title">SD</span>1.7</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">II</span> as Adj., [[maiden]], [[chaste]], παρθένον ψυχὴν ἔχων <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Hipp.</span> 1006</span>, cf. <span class="bibl">Porph. <span class="title">Marc.</span>33</span> ; <b class="b3">μίτρη π</b>. <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>319 : metaph., π. πηγή <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>613</span>. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">III</span> as masc., <b class="b3">παρθένος, ὁ</b>, [[unmarried man]], Apoc.14.4. </span><span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">IV</span> <b class="b3">π. γῆ</b> [[Samian earth]] (cf. παρθένιος 111), <span class="title">PMag.Berol.</span>2.57.</span>