Vestales

The priestesses of Vesta, called Vestales or Vestal Virgins, played a conspicuous part in these festivals.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

The Vestales were vowed to chastity, a violation of which was visited by the frightful punishment of being buried alive.

Myths and Legends of Ancient Greece and Rome E.M. Berens

And in this respect, the sentiment of the architecture is exactly faithful to that mood of religious feeling which appeared in Italy under the influences of the classical revival -- when the essential doctrines of Christianity were blurred with Pantheism; when Jehovah became _Jupiter Optimus Maximus_; and Jesus was the _Heros_ of Calvary, and nuns were _Virgines Vestales_.

New Italian sketches John Addington Symonds 1866

The generic term 'Labiatæ' is cancelled in 'Proserpina,' 'Vestales' being substituted; and these flowers, when I come to examine them, are to be described, not as divided into two lips, but into hood, apron, and side-pockets.

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

But I am far more embarrassed by the symbolism of that group which I called 'Vestales,' from their especially domestic character and their serviceable purity; but which may be, with more convenience perhaps, simply recognizable as 'Menthæ.'

Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859

13: "Vestales nostras hodie credimus nondum egressa urbe mancipia fugitiva retinere in loco precationibus."

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884