Picture No | 10053708 |
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Description | A VESTAL VIRGIN |
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One of the six virgins who tend the flame in the temple of Vesta, brought from Troy by Aeneas and which must never be allowed to go out or calamity will befall the Roman people
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Source | Labrousse, engraved by St Sauveur |
Credit | Mary Evans Picture Library |
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