virginitas
Dictionary entries
- Entry →virginitas, virginitatis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
maidenhood; virginity; being girl of marriageable age; being sworn to celibacy;
nom. sg.voc. sg.
Examples
Liber Primus
Publius Papinius Statius from ACHILLEID
"...idem cultus et expleto teneri iam fine pudoris virginitas matura toris annique tumentes. sed quantum virides pelagi Venus..."Poems
Gaius Valerius Catullus from Catullus' Poems
"...ipse pater cum matre, quibus parere necesse est. virginitas non tota tua est, ex parte parentum est, tertia..."Metamorphoses XIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...aeterna mihi carituraque fine dabatur, si mea virginitas Phoebo patuisset amanti. dum tamen hanc sperat, dum praecorrumpere donis..."Metamorphoses VI
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...lacrimis movere piis nec cura sororis nec mea virginitas nec coniugialia iura? omnia turbasti; paelex ego facta sororis..."