Virgo Vestalis

Virgo Vestalis,[1][2] simpliciter Vestalis,[3][4][5] antiquitate fuit sacerdos Vestae deae, cuius templo Romae inserviebat. Collegium Vestalium ab incunabulis civitatis Romanae usque ad annum 391 duravit, cum Theodosius I, imperator Christianus, eas e templo exire iussitː qui annus velut finem quendam publico paganismo in Imperio Romano imposuit. Quamdiu vero viguit religio vetus ipsam salutem reipublicae Romanae e ritibus Vestalium pendere aestimabant.

  1. D. P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary (Novi Eboraci: Wiley Publishing, 1968), 639.
  2. John C. Traupman, The Bantam New College Latin and English Dictionary, ed. tertia (Novi Eboraci: Bantam Books, 2007), 447.
  3. Liv. 1, 3 sq.; Plin. 28, 4, 7, § 39; Ov. F. 2, 383 al., in Lewis & Short, s.v. "Vesta," in A Latin Dictionary; Founded on Andrews' edition of Freund's Latin dictionary (1879).
  4. "Vestalis . . . (sc. virgo)," John T. White, The White Dictionary (Sicagi: Follett Publishing Company, 1928), 639.
  5. D. P. Simpson, Cassell's Latin Dictionary (Novi Eboraci: Wiley Publishing, 1968), 639.

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