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virgĭnĕus , a, um, adj. virgo,
I.of or belonging to a maiden or virgin, maidenly, virgin (poet. for virginalis): “figura,Tib. 3, 4, 89: “forma,Ov. M. 3, 607: “vultus,id. ib. 5, 563; “10, 631: facies,id. ib. 8, 323: “comptus,Lucr. 1, 87: “pudor,Tib. 1, 4, 14: “rubor,Verg. G. 1, 430: “decor,Sen. Med. 75: “sacra,offered by a maiden, Petr. 134: “favilla,” i. e. a virgin's funeral pile, Ov. M. 13, 697: “gymnasium,of the Spartan virgins, Prop. 3, 14 (4, 13), 2: “focus,” i. e. of Vesta, id. 4 (5), 4, 44; so, “too, ara,Ov. F. 4, 731; cf. “domus,of the Vestals, Mart. 1, 71, 4: “virginea domitus sagittā,” i. e. of Diana, Hor. C. 3, 4, 72: “umbrae,of the Danaides, Prop. 2, 1, 67: “bellum,of the Amazons, Val. Fl. 5, 134: “Helicon, as the seat of the Muses,Ov. M. 2, 219: “aurum,the golden crown received by the victor at the festival of Minerva, Mart. 9, 23, 1: “volucres,” i. e. the Harpies, Ov. M. 7, 4; cf. “vultus,Verg. A. 3, 216: aqua, the aqueduct called Aqua Virgo (v. virgo, D.), Ov. F. 1, 464; “called also virgineus liquor,id. P. 1, 8, 38.
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