(in ancient Rome) a virgin consecrated to Vesta and vowed to chastity, sharing the charge of maintaining the sacred fire burning on the goddess's altar.
（古罗马）维斯太贞女（守护灶神维斯太祭坛圣火的处女祭司）
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It was the punishment stipulated for Vestal Virgins found guilty of sexual misconduct.
The purity of women represents and safeguards the purity of the state; thus the consecrated virginity of the Vestal Virgins upheld the integrity of ancient Rome.
The punishment for lost chastity of a Vestal Virgin was live burial, because that was considered the best way to kill them without spilling their blood.
I have paid my devotions today both to the successor to St Peter and to the Vestal Virgins, who have no one left to remember them.
We lived facing the temple of the Vestal Virgins across the Tiber.
(in ancient Rome) a virgin consecrated to Vesta and vowed to chastity, sharing the charge of maintaining the sacred fire burning on the goddess's altar.
（古罗马）维斯太贞女（守护灶神维斯太祭坛圣火的处女祭司）
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It was the punishment stipulated for Vestal Virgins found guilty of sexual misconduct.
The purity of women represents and safeguards the purity of the state; thus the consecrated virginity of the Vestal Virgins upheld the integrity of ancient Rome.
I have paid my devotions today both to the successor to St Peter and to the Vestal Virgins, who have no one left to remember them.
We lived facing the temple of the Vestal Virgins across the Tiber.
The punishment for lost chastity of a Vestal Virgin was live burial, because that was considered the best way to kill them without spilling their blood.