Parsons’ Kaiser (The), Karl IV., of Germany, who was set up by Pope Clement VI., while Ludwig IV. was still on the throne. The Germans called the pope’s protégé “pfaffen kaiser.”
Parthe´nia, the mistress of Argălus.—Sir Philip Sidney, Arcadia (1580).
Parthenia, Maidenly Chastity personified. Parthenia is sister of Agnei´a (3 syl.), or wifely chastity, the spouse of Encra´tês, or temperance. Her attendant is Er´ythre, or modesty. (Greek, parthĕnia, “maidenhood.”)—Phineas Fletcher, The Purple Island, x. (1633).
Parthen´ope (4 syl.), one of the three syrens. She was buried at Naples. Naples itself was anciently called Parthenopê, which name was changed to Neap´olis (“the new city”) by a colony of Cumæans.
By dead Parthenope’s dear tomb.
Milton, Comus, 879 (1634).
Loitering by the sea
That laves the passionate shores of soft Parthenopê.
Lord Lytton, Ode, iii. 2 (1839).
(The three syrens were Parthenopê, Ligēa, and Leucos´ia, not Leucoth´ea, q.v.)
Parthenope (4 syl.), the damsel beloved by Prince Volscius.—Duke of Buckingham, The Rehearsal (1671).
Parthen´ope of Naples, Sannazora, the Neapolitan poet called “The Christian Virgil.” Most of his poems were published under the assumed name of Actius Sincerus (1458-1530).
At last the Muses ... scattered ...
Their blooming wreaths from fair Valclusa’s bowers [Petrarch]
To Arno [Dante and Boccaccio] ... and the shore
Of soft Parthenope.
Akenside, Pleasures of Imagination, ii. (1744).