proper noun
Parthĕnŏpē
Meaning
- one of the Sirens
Parthĕnŏpē, ēs, f., = Παρθενόπη,
I. 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,
II. Parthĕnŏpēĭus, a, um, adj., of or belonging to Parthenope, i. e. to Naples, Neapolitan:
moenia, Ov. M. 14, 101.Charlton Lewis's shorter dictionary for students: the same scholarship in plain, modern definitions.
Parthenopē ēs, f
, Παρτηενόπη, Neapolis (where the Siren Parthenope was buried), V., O.