παρθένος,
Laconian dialect παρσένος [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Lysistrata” 1263 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]. ἡ, maiden, girl, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 22.127, etc. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; αἱ ἄθλιαι π. ἐμαί my unhappy girls, [[ 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Oedipus Tyrannus” 1462, compare 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Equites” 1302; also γυνὴ παρθένος 8th-7th c.BC: Hesiodus Epicus “Theogonia” 514 ] Refs 8th c.BC+]; π. κόρα, of the Sphinx, uncertain in [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Phoenissae” 1730 (Lyric poetry)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; θυγάτηρ π. [[ 5th-6th c.BC: Xenophon Historicus “Institutio Cyri (Cyropaedia)” 4.6.9 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Persephone, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Helena” 1342 (Lyric poetry), compare 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Fragmenta” 804 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; virgin, opposed to γυνή, [[ [prev. author] “Tr.” 148, 3rd c.BC: Theocritus Poeta Bucolicus 27.65. ] Refs 3rd c.BC+]
__2 of unmarried women who are not virgins, [[ 8th c.BC: Ilias Homerus Epicus “Illiad” 2.514, 5th c.BC: Pindarus Lyricus “P.” 3.34, 5th c.BC: Sophocles Tragicus “Trachiniae” 1219, 5th-6th c.BC: Aristophanes Comicus “Nubes” 530. ] Refs 8th c.BC+]
__3 Παρθένος, ἡ, the Virgin Goddess, as a title of Athena at Athens, [[ 2nd c.AD: Pausanias Periegeta 5.11.10, 10.34.8 ] Refs 2nd c.AD+] (hence of an Attic dialect coin bearing her head, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Fragmenta” 675) ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of Artemis, [[ 5th c.BC: Euripides Tragicus “Hippolytus” 17 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of the Tauric Iphigenia, [[ 5th c.BC: Herodotus Historicus 4.103 ] Refs 5th c.BC+]; of an unnamed goddess, [[ “SIG” 46.3 (Halic., 5th c.BC), “IG” 12.108.48,54 (Neapolis in Thrace)] Refs 5th c.BC+]; αἱ ἱεραὶ π., of the Vestal Virgins, [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 1.69, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.89e, etc. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]; αἱ Ἑστιάδες π. [[ [prev. author] “Cic.” 19 ] Refs]; simply, αἱ π. [[ 1st c.BC: Dionysius Halicarnassensis 2.66. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]