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Example sentences for "vestal virgin"

  • It is also said in those commentaries of Labeo which he wrote on the Twelve Tables:-- "No Vestal Virgin can be heiress to any intestate person of either sex.

  • Rhea Silvia, the mother of Romulus, was a vestal virgin, who lived in the kingdom of Latium about four hundred years after the death of Æneas.

  • A vestal virgin was a sort of priestess, who was required, like the nuns of modern times, to live in seclusion from the rest of the world, and devote their time wholly and without reserve to the services of religion.

  • Rhea enters upon her duties as a vestal virgin.

  • Rhea Silvia, the mother of Romulus, was, we repeat, a vestal virgin.

  • Vestal virgin, a, to prove her innocence, carries water in a sieve from the Tiber, ii.


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