ἀειπάρθενος
Κύριε, βοήθησον τὸν δοῦλον σου Νῖλον κτλ. → Lord, help your slave Nilos ... (mosaic inscription from 4th-cent. church in the Negev)
English (LSJ)
ἡ,
A ever a virgin, Sapph.96 (in Aeol.form ἀϊπ-); of the Vestals, αἱἱέρειαι αἱ ἀειπ. D.C. 56.5, cf. 59.3. 2 in Pythag. language, of the number 7 (as being neither factor nor multiple of any number up to 10), Ph.1.46; of the Sabbath, ib.497.
Greek (Liddell-Scott)
ἀειπάρθενος: ἡ, ἡ ἀεὶ παρθένος, Σαπφ. 96. (ἐν Αἰολ. τύπ. ἀϊπ-, πρβλ. Cramer An. Par. 3. 321.), Εὐσ. Ἐγκώμ. Κωνσταντ. 17· ἐπὶ τῶν Ἑστιάδων ἐν Ρώμῃ: αἱ ἱέριαι αἱ ἀειπ., Δίων Κ. 56. 5, πρβλ. 59. 3. 2) ἐν τῇ Πυθαγ. γλώσσῃ ἐπὶ τοῦ ἀριθμοῦ 7, Φίλων 1. 46, 497, πρβλ. ἄγονος, ΙΙ. 1.
French (Bailly abrégé)
ος, ον :
toujours vierge, qui fait vœu de chasteté en parl. des Vestales.
Étymologie: ἀεί, παρθένος.
