The procession entered from the cloister, and on approaching the altar where was kept burning the vestal flame, it divided so as to allow the high priest and his acolytes to pass up between.
The corpse of Latona gave birth to a new vestal fire tended by new vestals, vowed no longer to barrenness, but to fertility and sacrifice.
Vestal was living in the immediate neighbourhood then.
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Science has kept her midnight taper burning To greet thy coming with its vestal flame; Friendship has murmured, "When art thou returning?
Such was the breath that wooed our ravished ears, Sweet as the voice a dreaming vestal hears; Soft as the murmur of a brooding dove, It told the mystery of a mother's love.
Eugenie (in a tone which a Vestal in the amphitheatre would have used, when urging the victorious gladiator to finish his vanquished adversary).
Vestal virgin, a, to prove her innocence, carries water in a sieve from the Tiber, ii.
Vestal virgins, the punishment of those caught in adultery, i.
As she placed her firm unshrinking foot upon the steps, the executioner put forth his hand to disengage her robe, but the vestal haughtily repulsed him, as if his touch were profanation to her purity.
An old law in such cases gave the sick vestal a change of abode, and the privilege of choosing three of the noblest matrons in Rome for her nurses.
From him Lucia heard with painful interest of the arraignment of the Vestal College, and the danger that impended over Cornelia Cossi, the Maxima, or chief vestal priestess.
This was not unnatural in the heathen priestess, but it pained the Christian who withdrew to the asylum the labyrinth of the Arenaria afforded, resolving to use every effort to convert the young vestal to the pure faith of Christ.
From the licentious stare and free speech of Nymphidius the vestal virgin shrank abashed.
The vestalpriestess in her sacerdotal robes eclipses the proud dames of Rome in beauty as in virtue.
The feeble-minded Antonia, the wife of Julius, took that opportunity of repeating all the idle reports in circulation in Rome respecting Lucia Claudia’s abandonment of her vestal life.
The præfect demanded the hand of his vestal sister as his reward, whose vows he affirmed he would find means to annul; to which Julius readily assented.
As the flame descended into the receiver, the devotion of the vestal soared into enthusiasm.
During this performance, there arose out of the earth a pavilion of white taffeta, supported on pillars resembling porphyry and formed to imitate the temple of the Vestal virgins.
The mother abbess looked with a rueful eye upon the treasures of beauty and vestal virtue exposed to such imminent peril.
Vestal virgins were found in organized communities on both sides of the Atlantic; they were in each case pledged to celibacy, and devoted to death if they violated their vows.
They had an order of women vowed to celibacy-vestal virgins-nuns; and a violation of their vow was punished, in both continents, by their being buried alive.
For of old the Sun, our sire, Came wooing the mother of men, Earth, that was virginal then, Vestal fire to his fire.
He gave likewise many legacies; amongst which were bequests to the Vestal Virgins, to all the soldiers, and each one of the people of Rome, and to the magistrates of the several quarters of the city.
Referring in particular to the scandals among the Vestal Virgins and to Domitian's relations with his niece Julia.
Domitian constituted himself censor; his attention was turned first to the college of Vestal Virgins, who had become notorious for licentiousness.
There, in the presence of the multitude, after the priest had uttered certain prayers, the Vestal descended into her living tomb.
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Whenever a Vestalappeared in public, she was preceded by a lictor, before whom everyone made way, even the highest officer of the State.
Consequently, a Vestal not only could receive legacies, but also enjoyed an untrammelled right in the disposal of her property.
If a Vestal broke her vow of chastity, a horrible death awaited her.
It was a Vestal of this family who, when her father was refused a triumph by the Roman people, placed herself in his chariot so as to prevent his being interrupted in his progress through the city.
Numa Pompilius, the second of Rome's legendary kings, is said, as already mentioned, to have instituted the college of the Vestal Virgins and to have formulated the rules of the life to which they were bound.
To him is given the credit of organizing the religious institutions of the Romans, and especially the college of Vestal Virgins.
A long train of concubines, and a rapid succession of wives, among whom was a Vestal virgin, ravished by force from her sacred asylum, were insufficient to satisfy the impotence of his passions.
As she was descending to the tomb, Cornelia's veil caught on the steps; when an official offered to disentangle it, the Vestal in a horrified manner bade him to desist, as her consecrated character could not endure the profane touch of a man.
It may be that this attribution of a vicarious character thereto partly accounts for the high valuation set upon Vestal virginity.
As she was descending to the tomb, Cornelia's veil caught on the steps; when an official offered to disentangle it, the Vestal in a horrified manner bade him desist, as her consecrated character could not endure the profane touch of a man.
The glorification of virginity in the Vestal order must have helped to sustain the high moral tone which prevailed among the women of early Rome.
There was infinite happiness, infinite peace in that kiss, the first her vestallips had ever granted to any man.
The Romans offered sacrifices to Vesta, the goddess of the fireplace, and it was the duty of the vestal virgins to keep a fire always burning on her altar.
Up through the branches of the great pines, God's lanterns were swinging as though but just trimmed and lighted, and under the august roof where they swung, they shone with rays more pure than vestal lamps.
The Romans had their Vestal virgins, whose office, according to tradition, was instituted by Numa.
Moreover, if a criminal who had been sentenced to death accidentally met a Vestalvirgin on his way to the place of execution, his {638} life was saved.
My mother was a vestal (priestess), my father an alien, whose brother inhabited the mountain.
A girl might also obtain a limited degree of freedom by taking vows of celibacy and becoming one of the vestal virgins, or nuns, who were attached to the temple of the sun god.
His mother was a vestal virgin dedicated to the sun god, Shamash, and his father an unknown stranger from the mountains--a suggestion of immediate Semitic affinities.
The Vestal informed her bearers that she was likely to be absent some little time, and they must wait quietly without, and not annoy a dying man with unseemly laughter or loud conversation.
The Vestal began to feel the blood mantling to her cheeks and leaving them again.
Fabia the Vestal was now about thirty-seven years of age.
Now," and Demetrius seized theVestal around the waist, as lightly as a girl would raise a kitten, and flung her across his shoulders.
She had much difficulty in persuading Fabia to yield; for the Vestal was for standing on her Roman prerogatives and giving way to nothing except sheer force.
And when Drusus went out of the house he saw the dignified figure of the Vestal gazing after him.
A Vestal imprisoned in the hold of banditti, forced to become the consort, lawful or unlawful, of the brigands' chief!
And indeed, most excellent Gabinius, you must pardon me for being startled; for all that I know of you tells me that you are likely to find a sombre Vestal sorry enough company.
Yet even at the moment when she felt herself in the most imminent personal peril, the inbred dignity and composed hauteur of the Vestal did not desert her.
But my uncle, Aurelius Cotta, and some good friends of mine among the Vestal Virgins pleaded my cause.
He lifted in Fabia likewise, but the Vestal only bowed her head in calm silence.
I am the Virgin, and my vestal flame Burns less intensely than the Lion's rage; Sheaves are my only garlands, and I claim The golden Harvests as my heritage.
Rome had fourteen of these officers, besides one for the vestal virgins, and one for the gymnasia.
Exceptions were made in the case of emperors, vestal virgins, and famous men, such as those who had been honoured with triumphs.
And last of all entered theVestal Virgins, none of whom had ever before been seen by me, and they also walked two by two; and no one could contemplate without veneration the majesty of their demeanour.
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