2.3 Vesta

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Iúnior Vesta
igni praéerat,
eíque aram
Numa Pompílius consecrávit,
et ignem in ara perpétuum
fovéri iussit,
cuius aléndi curam
virgínibus Vestálibus
demandávit.
Si casu exstinguerétur,
indicebátur iustítium,
et pública privátaque negótia
intermittebántur;
donec
prodígium illud infaústum
expiátum fuísset:
si Vestálium incúria,
gráviter
in eas animadvertebátur.
Quotánnis
renovabátur ignis ille
Caléndis Mártiis,
petíta
non ab igne álio,
sed a Sole,
flamma.

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TEXT SOURCE: Epitome of Greek and Roman Mythology, by John Seely Hart (1853), with a vocabulary list in the back.

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