παρθένος: Difference between revisions

|Definition=Lacon. [[παρσένος]] <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Lys.</span>1263</span> (lyr.). ἡ, <span class="sense"><span class="bld">A</span> [[maiden]], [[girl]], <span class="bibl">Il.22.127</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">αἱ ἄθλιαι παρθένοι 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>; παρθένος [[κόρα]], of the [[Sphinx]], dub. in <span class="bibl">E.<span class="title">Ph.</span>1730</span> (lyr.); [[θυγάτηρ]] παρθένος <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"><span class="bld">2</span> of [[unmarried]] [[women]] who are not [[virgin]]s, <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"><span class="bld">3</span> [[Παρθένος]], [[ἡ]], 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); αἱ [[ἱεραὶ παρθένοι]], of the [[vestal virgins]], <span class="bibl">D.H.1.69</span>, Plu.2.89e, etc.; αἱ [[Ἑστιάδες παρθένοι]] <span class="bibl">Id.<span class="title">Cic.</span>19</span>; simply, <b class="b3">αἱ παρθένοι</b> <span class="bibl">D.H.2.66</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">4</span> the [[constellation]] [[Virgo]], Eudox. ap. <span class="bibl">Hipparch. 1.2.5</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.97</span>, etc. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">5</span> = [[κόρη]] ''III'', [[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"><span class="bld">II</span> as adjective, [[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>; [[μίτρη]] παρθένος <span class="title">Epigr.Gr.</span>319 : metaph., παρθένος [[πηγή]] <span class="bibl">A.<span class="title">Pers.</span>613</span>. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">III</span> as masc., [[παρθένος]], [[ὁ]], [[unmarried man]], Apoc.14.4. </span><span class="sense"><span class="bld">IV</span> <b class="b3">παρθένος γῆ</b> [[Samian earth]] (cf. [[παρθένιος]] ΙΙΙ), <span class="title">PMag.Berol.</span>2.57.</span>