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Parthenia
[ pahr-thee-nee-uh ]
noun
- an epithet of Athena, meaning “virgin.”
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And in due time Cattleya intermedia Parthenia appeared, to astonish and delight the universe.
Then Parthenia dresses herself as a knight, and fights her husband's conqueror.
The original text inconsistently uses a breve over the e in "Parthenia" and "Passameso."
Thinking of the wearied Parthenia, I began to consider for the first time that perhaps she had better married the old Greek.
There is not enough human reality about Parthenia to allow her representative to interest very deeply the sympathy of her hearers.
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