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unusual facts about Vestal Virgin



Lucius Albinius

Lucius Albinius, a plebeian who was conveying his wife and children in a cart out of the city after the defeat on the Alia in 390 BC, and overtook on the Janiculus the priests and vestals carrying the sacred things.

Regia

The East Room contained a sanctuary of Ops Consiva, so sacred that only the pontifex maximus and the Vestal Virgins were allowed to enter it.

The Intervention of the Sabine Women

According to legend, when Tatius attacked Rome, he almost succeeded in capturing the city because of the treason of the Vestal Virgin Tarpeia, daughter of Spurius Tarpeius, governor of the citadel on the Capitoline Hill.


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