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|Definition=Lacon. [[παρσένος]] Ar.''Lys.''1263 (lyr.). ἡ,<br><span class="bld">A</span> [[maiden]], [[girl]], Il.22.127, etc.; [[αἱ ἄθλιαι παρθένοι ἐμαί]] my [[unhappy]] [[girls]], [[Sophocles|S.]]''[[Oedipus Tyrannus|OT]]''1462, cf. [[Aristophanes|Ar.]]''[[The Knights|Eq.]]''1302; also γυνὴ παρθένος Hes. ''Th.''514; παρθένος [[κόρα]], of the [[Sphinx]], dub. in E.''Ph.''1730 (lyr.); [[θυγάτηρ]] παρθένος [[Xenophon|X.]]''[[Cyropaedia|Cyr.]]''4.6.9; of [[Persephone]], E. ''Hel.''1342 (lyr.), cf. S.''Fr.''804; [[virgin]], opp. [[γυνή]], Id.''Tr.''148, Theoc.27.65.<br><span class="bld">2</span> of [[unmarried]] [[women]] who are not [[virgin]]s, Il.2.514, Pi.''P.''3.34, S.''Tr.''1219, Ar.''Nu.''530.<br><span class="bld">3</span> [[Παρθένος]], ἡ, 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]], [[Herodotus|Hdt.]]4.103; of an unnamed goddess, ''SIG''46.3 (Halic., v B.C.), ''IG''12.108.48,54 (Neapolis in Thrace); αἱ [[ἱεραὶ παρθένοι]], of the [[vestal virgins]], D.H.1.69, Plu.2.89e, etc.; αἱ [[Ἑστιάδες παρθένοι]] Id.''Cic.''19; simply, [[αἱ παρθένοι]] D.H.2.66.<br><span class="bld">4</span> the [[constellation]] [[Virgo]], Eudox. ap. Hipparch. 1.2.5, Arat.97, etc.<br><span class="bld">5</span> = [[κόρη]] ''III'', [[pupil]], X.ap.Longin.4.4, Aret. ''SD''1.7.<br><span class="bld">II</span> as adjective, [[maiden]], [[chaste]], παρθένον ψυχὴν ἔχων E.''Hipp.'' 1006, cf. Porph. ''Marc.''33; [[μίτρη]] παρθένος ''Epigr.Gr.''319: metaph., παρθένος [[πηγή]] A.''Pers.''613.<br><span class="bld">III</span> as masc., [[παρθένος]], [[ὁ]], [[unmarried man]], Apoc.14.4.<br><span class="bld">IV</span> [[παρθένος γῆ]] = [[Samian earth]] (cf. [[παρθένιος]] ΙΙΙ), ''PMag.Berol.''2.57.