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Headword:
*parqeni/a
Adler number: pi,663
Translated headword: virginity
Vetting Status: high
Translation: [Meaning] the pure life.[1] Also [sc. attested is the phrase] 'Parthenian sea'.[2]
Greek Original:*parqeni/a: o( kaqaro\s bi/os. kai\ *parqe/nion pe/lagos.
Notes:
Same material, according to Adler, in the
Ambrosian Lexicon (200 & 214).
[1] cf. generally
pi 661,
pi 662,
pi 666,
pi 667,
pi 668.
[2] A late-antique term for that part of the SE Mediterranean which lay between Greece and Egypt. Gregory of Nazianzus (
gamma 450) was once shipwrecked when sailing across it.
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 August 2011@07:37:06.
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