Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

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    Vestal Virgins

    group · 3 works · 6 mentions · 6 anchored passages

    Vestal virgins · Virgo Vestalis · those who handle the image of that inextinguishable fire · vestal virgin · vestal virgins · virgines Vestales

    spoken of as

    2 expressions

    The Vestal Virgins1 mention

    Institutes of Roman Law (English)

    Praeterea exeunt liberi uirilis sexus de parentis potestate si flamines Diales inaugurentur, et feminini sexus si uirgines Vestales capiantur.
    qvibus modis ivs potestatis solvatvr 1

    Vestal virgin1 mention

    Institutes of Roman Law (English)

    ‘As soon as a vestal virgin is selected and conducted to the shrine of Vesta and delivered to the pontifices, she instantaneously, without emancipation and without capital diminution, is freed from parental power and acquires testamentary capacity.
    de capitis minvtione 2

    in the texts

    Institutes of Roman LawClassical · English

    Roman priestesses named among the lessors of ager vectigalis land.

    Ager vectigalis was land leased by a municipality, or a sacerdotal college, or the Vestal Virgins in perpetuity, or for long terms of years, for a rent (vectigal) either in money or in produce, usually amounting to one fifth or one seventh of the profits.
    consensv obligationes 2
    Further, a son is liberated from parental power by his inauguration as flamen of Jove, a daughter by her selection for the office of Vestal virgin.
    qvibus modis ivs potestatis solvatvr 2
    loquimur autem exceptis uirginibus Vestalibus quas etiam ueteres in honorem sacerdotii liberas esse uoluerunt, itaque etiam lege xii tabularum cautum est.
    de tvtelis 1

    Ad UxoremLate Antiquity · Latin

    Roman priestesses who tend the sacred fire and are prized for virginity.

    At Rome, indeed, those who handle the image of that inextinguishable fire, tending the auspices of their own punishment along with that very dragon, are appraised for their virginity.
    ad uxorem

    On LeisureImperial · Latin

    Roman priestesses whose years are divided between learning and later teaching sacred rites, used as an analogy for the proper sequence of active service followed by leisured teaching.

    Second, that a man may, once his term of service is completed and his years far spent, do this with the fullest right and turn his mind to other pursuits, after the manner of the Vestal Virgins, who, with their years apportioned among their several duties, first learn to perform the sacred rites and, once they have learned, teach others.
    on leisure