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Maintainer of a fire in ancient Rome
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vestal virgin
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n. 1 (context literally English) a virgin dedicated to the service of the goddess Vesta 2 a chaste woman
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In ancient Rome , the Vestals or Vestal Virgins ( Vestales , singular Vestalis ) were priestesses of Vesta , goddess of the hearth . The College of the Vestals and its well-being was regarded as fundamental to the continuance and security of Rome . They ...
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n. (Roman mythology) one of the virgin priestesses consecrated to the Roman goddess Vesta and to maintaining the sacred fire in her temple
Usage examples of vestal virgin.
Rhea Silvia was made a Vestal Virgin so that she could never have children.
They downed the rest of their coffee and scrambled up the steps just as the Vestal Virgin was coming into view.
For if any of the miracles of their gods are great, certainly that is a great one which Varro mentions of a vestal virgin, who, when she was endangered by a false accusation of unchastity, filled a sieve with water from the Tiber, and carried it to her judges without any part of it leaking.
Adding crime to crime, he murdered his brother's sons and made the daughter, Rea Silvia, a Vestal virgin.
A long train of concubines, and a rapid succession of wives, among whom was a vestal virgin, ravished by force from her sacred asylum, ^58 were insufficient to satisfy the impotence of his passions.
He violated the chastity of a Vestal Virgin [Aquilia Severa, whom he married in early 221, after the divorce of his first wife Paula.
She was wearing an old sheepskin coat over her torn vestal virgin dress.
Such a demon was supposed to have possessed a vestal virgin in Rome.