Woman adviser

Usage examples of egeria.

He it was who had given her the name of Egeria, because she said she had a genius who directed her and passed the nights with her when she slept by herself.

A statue of Egeria, goddess of the water-spring, was set in a niche beside the door.

He could not have been more startled if Egeria herself, the goddess of the water-spring, had suddenly materialised in the moonlight.

The holy women had been making their morning trip to the Fountain of Egeria near the Coelian Hill.

The tribune goggled, his face white, sweat-bright, at the Vestal Virgins on their morning journey to the Fountain of Egeria on the Coelian Hill.

In order to judge what counsels this Egeria gave, we have only to read some of her letters.

There are the episodes of Ulysses and Calypso, Ulysses and Circe, Numa and Egeria, Rinaldo and Armida, Prince Ahmed and Peri Banou.

The first Aemilia who was ever a Vestal was wise enough to know that the everyday tasks, tending the sacred fire and carrying all of our water from the wellit was the Fountain of Egeria in those days, admittedly a lot farther away than Juturnawere not enough to keep our minds busy and our intentions and our vows pure.

I have gone through the best years of youth without finding the Egeria with whom the cavern would be sweeter than a throne.

He could not have been more startled if Egeria herself, the goddess of the water-spring, had suddenly materialized in the moonlight.

She would fain play the part of Egeria and lay down the law to him in stolen interviews beyond the city.

As Numa went often thither alone, under pretence of conferring with the goddess, he dedicated the place to the Muses, because their meetings with his wife Egeria were held there.