vestam
Dictionary entries
- Entry →Vesta, Vestae:
Feminine · Noun · 1st declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
- Dictionary:
- Lewis (Elementary)
- Field:
- Religion
Vesta; (goddess of flocks/herds and of hearth/household); (child of Saturn+Ops);
acc. sg.
Examples
- D
Satura IV
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...suberant, ubi quamquam diruta seruat ignem Troianum et Vestam colit Alba minorem, obstitit intranti miratrix turba parumper..." - P
Liber IV
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Georgics
"...quae flumina servant. Ter liquido ardentem perfundit nectare Vestam, ter flamma ad summum tecti subiecta reluxit. Omine..." - G
Liber IV
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus (Pliny the Younger) from EPISTVLARVM LIBRI DECEM
"...pontifices qui defodiendam necandamque curarent. Illa nunc ad Vestam, nunc ad ceteros deos manus tendens, multa..."