vestal virgin
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The story of the vestal virgin Claudia Quinta represents one such instance.
From Textbooks • Apr. 19, 2023
His father was a "lunger," and ex-professor from the East; his mother a vestal virgin dedicated to keeping the home fires burning.
From Time Magazine Archive
Three doors farther down the avenue Selah Adams sat upon the front veranda, looking like the vestal virgin of the moon.
From The Co-Citizens by Harris, Corra
These terrors, however, terminated in this, that Oppia, a vestal virgin, being found guilty of a breach of chastity, suffered punishment.
From Roman History, Books I-III by Livius, Titus
She had a half-sister, probably older than herself, of the name of Fabia, who was a vestal virgin.
From Roman life in the days of Cicero by Church, Alfred John
