virginitatis
Dictionary entries
- Entry →virginitas, virginitatis:
Feminine · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Lesser
maidenhood; virginity; being girl of marriageable age; being sworn to celibacy;
acc. pl.gen. sg.nom. pl.
Examples
Aeneid XI
P. Vergilius Maro (Vergil) from The Aeneid
"...optavere nurum; sola contenta Diana aeternum telorum et virginitatis amorem intemerata colit. vellem haud correpta fuisset militia tali..."Metamorphoses VIII
Publius Ovidius Naso (Ovid) from Metamorphoses
"...palmas "eripe me domino, qui raptae praemia nobis virginitatis habes!" ait: haec Neptunus habebat; qui prece non spreta..."Liber II
Titus Livius (Livy)
"...legeret. Productis omnibus elegisse impubes dicitur; quod et virginitati decorum et consensu obsidum ipsorum probabile erat eam aetatem..."