Vietnam or Thailand ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
Updated: May 31, 2025
Then, aside from the assemblage of Pontiffs, Augurs, Flamens and the rest, he spoke privately with Brinnaria: "I'm sorry to lose you," he said; "I felt comfortable about the Palladium as long as you were a Vestal.
The battle thus begun, the "Vestal" keeping the weather gauge, was continued for half-an-hour with great fury, till the Frenchman's foremast went by the board. The enemy's guns were well handled, and the corvette began to suffer accordingly. The first lieutenant and five men were killed, and the captain, a midshipman, and several men wounded.
Three boats were instantly lowered from the opposite side of the "Vestal," and manned. The Frenchmen pulled rapidly on, expecting to make an easy prize of the "Vestal." Their look of consternation was very great when they first perceived the painted canvas which concealed the corvette's guns.
A word from him and all ambition of mine had probably been at an end, I take no praise to myself for this. I refused him. I defied his threats. He seized my property, deprived me of my priesthood, finally let loose his pack of assassins upon me. I almost became their victim. But my uncle, Aurelius Cotta, and some good friends of mine among the Vestal Virgins pleaded my cause. I escaped.
In the name of the God of mercy; let them pour the maddening liquor down their throats and feel for one brief moment that they live! Ah! we may talk sentiment as much as we like, but the stomach is the real seat of happiness in this world. The kitchen is the chief temple wherein we worship, its roaring fire is our vestal flame, and the cook is our great high-priest.
Be explicit, be definite, and I can put you at peace with yourself at once and permanently." Brinnaria drew a deep breath. "To begin with," she said, "you know that, before I was taken for a Vestal, I was plighted to Caius Segontius Almo." "Certainly, I knew that," Aurelius replied. "All Rome knew of his ride from Falerii and of his arriving just too late." "You knew I was in love with him?"
Octavianus had wrested it from the Vestal Virgins, to whose care it had been entrusted, in order to fill the hearts of Roman citizens and matrons with indignation against his foe. The plot had succeeded, but the document had reminded Cleopatra that her heart had given this man the first of its flowers, that love for him had been the sunshine of her life.
Then might the glorious and god like thirst of vengeance in our great High Priestess be somewhat more appeased in this matter. For the unlawful communion of love between a vestal virgin and an anointed priest cannot be too utterly abhorred and condemned, and these twain, who thus did foully violate their vows, have perished far too easily.
In that chapter of Plutarch's Life of Cato which has been already quoted, after describing how the father taught his boy to ride, to box, to swim, and so on, he goes on, "And he was as careful not to utter an indecent word before his son, as he would have been in the presence of the Vestal Virgins."
In her he seemed to be discovering, all over again, the vestal to tend the fires of his faith. Dick Allport, too, bending forward over the table on which his hands fell clenched, was studying Leila with an inscrutable stare that seemed to be of query.
Word Of The Day
Others Looking