 | John Mason Good - 1819 - Liczba stron: 482
...the expulsion of the Far quins, the high priest was entrusted with the care of them. Their employment was to take care that the sacred fire of Vesta was not extinguished. It was required that they should be born of a good family, and be without blemish or deformity in every... | |
 | John Mason Good - 1813 - Liczba stron: 480
...the expulsion of the Tarquins, the high priest was entrusted with the care of them. Their employment was to take care that the sacred fire of Vesta was not extinfuiihed. It was required that they should he Urn of a good family, and he without blemish "r deformity... | |
 | Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - Liczba stron: 846
...shackles of parental authority, and she was permitted to dispose of her possessions as she pleased. The employment of the vestals was to take care that...punished for her negligence, and severely scourged by the High Priest. In such a case all was consternation at Rome, and the fire was again kindled by... | |
 | Florian - 1850 - Liczba stron: 332
...shackles of parental authority, and she was permitted to dispose of her possessions as she pleased. The employment of the vestals was to take care that...punished for her negligence, and severely scourged by the high priest. In such a case all was consternation at Home, and the fire was again kindled by... | |
 | Albert Stratford George Canning - 1907 - Liczba stron: 306
...among the Romans) was to take care that the sacred fire of Vesta (a goddess, sister to Ceres and Juno) was not extinguished, for if it ever happened it was...the prognostic of great calamities to the State." — Lempriere's Classical Dictionary. And Remus1 with Quirinus* shall sustain The righteous laws, and... | |
 | sir Richard Paul Jodrell (bart.) - 1841 - Liczba stron: 64
...it had been dedicated by his Friend, and Executor. " Multis tile bonis Jlebilis occidit." — Hor. 1 The employment of the Vestals was to take care that the sacred fire of Vesta was never extinguished. Tullia, or Tulliola, was the favourite and much-lamented daughter of Cicero ; in... | |
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The employment of the vestals was to take care that the sacred fire of Vesta was not extinguished, for if it ever happened, it was deemed the prognostic of great calamities to the state ; the offender was punished for her negligence, and severely scourged... 