παρθένος

A. maiden, girl, Il. 22.127, etc. ; αἱ ἄθλιαι π. ἐμαί my unhappy girls, S. OT 1462, cf. Ar. Eq. 1302 ; also γυνὴ παρθένος Hes. 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,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, Hdt. 4.103 ; of an unnamed goddess, SIG 46.3 (Halic., v B.C.), IG 12.108.48,54 (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. SD 1.7.

II. as Adj., maiden, chaste, παρθένον ψυχὴν ἔχων E. Hipp. 1006, cf. Porph. Marc. 33 ; μίτρη π. Epigr.Gr. 319 : metaph., π. πηγή A. Pers. 613.

III. as masc., παρθένος,ὁ, unmarried man, Apoc. 14.4.

IV. π. γῆ Samian earth (cf. παρθένιος 111), PMag.Berol. 2.57.