Definition of Parthinope

Definition of Parthinope

Parthenope, in the Greek mythology one of the three Sirens (q. v.), threw herself into the sea because her love for Ulysses was not returned, and was drowned; her body was washed ashore at Naples, which was called Parthenope after her name.

- Wikipedia

||Par*then"o*pe (pär*th&ebreve;n"&osl;*pē), n. [L., the name of a Siren, fr. Gr. Parqeno`pn.] 1. (Gr. Myth.) One of the Sirens, who threw herself into the sea, in despair at not being able to beguile Ulysses by her songs.

2. One of the asteroids between Mars and Jupiter, discovered by M. de Gasparis in 1850.

- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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