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Fingebam honestatem plusquam virginis vestalis, intuebar oculis uxoris, addebam gestus, &c.
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[Illustration: Costume of a chief vestal (virgo vestalis maxima).]
The Women of the Caesars Ferrero, Guglielmo, 1871-1942 1911
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[Illustration: Costume of a chief vestal (virgo vestalis maxima).]
The Women of the Caesars Guglielmo Ferrero 1906
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She does not give her name to any of the festivals of the calendar; but at one of them, the Fordicidia in April, at a time when the earth is teeming with mysterious power, and when the festivals are of a peculiarly agricultural character, she has her own special sacrifice -- a pregnant cow, whose young are torn from her womb, burnt by the _Virgo vestalis maxima_, and their ashes used in certain mystic rites, _e. g.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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