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
She is the vestal virgin who, so far as she can, prevents them from going out.
From Light by Wray, Fitzwater
A betrothed maiden defended by tapu was as sacred as a vestal virgin of Rome; a shrine became a Holy Place; the head of a chief something which it was sacrilege to lay hands on.
From The Long White Cloud by Reeves, William Pember
And, if sanctity alone is to be the ground of immunity, what are we to think of the punishment of a vestal virgin?
From A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate by Greenidge, A. H. J. (Abel Hendy Jones)
