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Parthenope
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Lewis Short
(adjective) : Parthĕnŏpē, ēs, f., = Παρθενόπη
* One of the Sirens, who, on the departure of Ulysses, threw herself, for grief, into the sea, and was cast up on the shore where Naples afterwards stood; on this account that city was in early times called by her name, Sil. 12, 33; Verg. G. 4, 564; Ov. M. 15, 712.—Hence
* Parthĕnŏpēĭus, a, um, , of or belonging to Parthenope, i. e. to Naples, Neapolitan: moenia,Ov. M. 14, 101.
* One of the Sirens, who, on the departure of Ulysses, threw herself, for grief, into the sea, and was cast up on the shore where Naples afterwards stood; on this account that city was in early times called by her name, Sil. 12, 33; Verg. G. 4, 564; Ov. M. 15, 712.—Hence
* Parthĕnŏpēĭus, a, um, , of or belonging to Parthenope, i. e. to Naples, Neapolitan: moenia,Ov. M. 14, 101.
Charlton T. Lewis, Charles Short, A Latin Dictionary
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