pŭella (noun F) : (dat. and
* Abl. plur. puellabus, Cn. Gell. ap. Charis. p. 39 P.), f. puellus, a female child, a girl, maiden, lass.
* Lit.
* In gen.: eam nunc puellam filiam ejus quaerimus,Plaut. Cist. 2, 3, 77: puellam parere,Ter. Heaut. 4, 1, 14: parvola puella,id. Eun. 1, 2, 29: puella infans,Hor. Ep. 2, 1, 99: pueri atque puellae,id. S. 1, 1, 85; 2, 3, 130; Cic. Att. 1, 5, 6: audi, Luna, puellas,Hor. C. S. 36: puellarum chorus,id. C 2, 5, 21: pueri innuptaeque puellae, Verg. A. 6, 307.
* Transf., in gen., a young female, young woman, young wife (poet. and in post-Aug. prose): puellae Jam virum expertes,Hor. C. 3, 14, 10: laborantes utero puellae,id. ib. 3, 22, 2: viduae cessate puellae,Ov. F. 2, 557. So of Penelope, who was married, Ov. H. 1, 115; of Antiope,Prop. 3, 13 (4, 14), 21; 34; of Phaedra,Ov. H. 4, 2; of Helen,id. A. A. 1, 54 al.; of the wife of a second husband,Stat. S. 1, 2, 163; of Servilia, wife of the exiled Pollio,Tac. A. 16, 30; of Octavia, wife of Nero,id. ib. 14, 64; cf. Gell. 12, 1, 4.
* A beloved maiden, a sweetheart, mistress (poet.): vixi puellis nuper idoneus,Hor. C. 3, 26, 1: proditor puellae risus ab angulo,id. ib. 1, 9, 22: mendax,id. S. 1, 5, 82: cara,id. Ep. 1, 18, 74: blanda,Ov. Am. 2, 2, 34; Mart. 10, 109, 3 al.—Transf., in jest, of a kitten, Mart. 1, 109, 16.—*
* A daughter: Danai puellae,Hor. C. 3, 11, 23.
* A female slave (very rare), Hor. C. 4, 11, 10.

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