Pudicitia

See Keltanen 2002, 111 on Pudicitia as a first and Vesta as an unusual association.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Another set publicized her dedication of a new shrine called the Ara Pudicitia, the Altar of Chastity.

Caesars’ Wives Annelise Freisenbruch 2010

Pudicitia was modesty, piety, devotion to home; to be pudica was to follow a carefully prescribed set of norms and values that served the greater interest of home and family.

I Was Drinking When I Wrote This | Her Bad Mother 2007

Pudicitia was modesty, piety, devotion to home; to be pudica was to follow a carefully prescribed set of norms and values that served the greater interest of home and family.

Archive 2007-01-28 2007

Pudicitia was modesty, piety, devotion to home; to be pudica was to follow a carefully prescribed set of norms and values that served the greater interest of home and family.

I Was Drinking When I Wrote This 2007

Ages and at the beginning of the Renaissance certain aspects of temperance were prominent in popular iconographic cycles: Pudicitia and Sobrietas among the victorious virtues in the Psychomachia of Prudentius

Dictionary of the History of Ideas HELEN F. NORTH 1968

Even in the time of Tertullian, the lapsi of Carthage were in the habit of thus appealing to the intercession of the confessors ( "Ad Mart.", i; "De Pudicitia", xxii).

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 9: Laprade-Mass Liturgy 1840-1916 1913

Tertullian's bitter polemic, "De Pudicitia" (about 220), was called forth by an exercise of papal prerogative.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

Verginia protested with perfect truth that she entered the temple of Pudicitia as a patrician and a pure woman, the wife of one man to whom she had been betrothed as a virgin, and she had nothing to be ashamed of in her husband or in his honourable career and the offices which he had held.

The History of Rome, Vol. II 1905

The savage Puritanism of the _De Monogamia_ and _De Ieiunio_ is couched in a scholastic diction where the tradition of culture is disappearing; and in the gloomy ferocity of the _De Pudicitia, _ probably the latest of his extant works, he comes to a final rupture alike with Catholicism and with humane letters.

Latin Literature 1902