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
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)
Rhea enters upon her duties as a vestal virgin.
From Romulus Makers of History by Abbott, Jacob
She possessed in his eyes something of the sanctity of a vestal virgin, one who must not be profaned by marriage.
From The Mayor of Warwick by Hopkins, Herbert M. (Herbert Müller)
