Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . dled it. In times of grave crisis, orduring prodigies, such as earthquake, famine, or pestUence, theywere to offer special prayers, not only to Vesta, but to Apollo, Mars,and probably to Diana Lucifera. As a goddess of light and purity,and therefore of the upper world, the victims offered to Vesta werewhite. The Vestalia took place, June 7-15, when matrons onlywith bared feet and unbound hair were permitted to enter thePenus Vestae or Locus Intimus, and pay their devotions to thegoddess. No marriages might then take place, &c., <fec.

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Walks in Rome (including Tivoli, Frascati, and Albano) . dled it. In times of grave crisis, orduring prodigies, such as earthquake, famine, or pestUence, theywere to offer special prayers, not only to Vesta, but to Apollo, Mars,and probably to Diana Lucifera. As a goddess of light and purity,and therefore of the upper world, the victims offered to Vesta werewhite. The Vestalia took place, June 7-15, when matrons onlywith bared feet and unbound hair were permitted to enter thePenus Vestae or Locus Intimus, and pay their devotions to thegoddess. No marriages might then take place, &c., <fec. Ovidspeaks of having seen a barefooted lady returning by the littlestreet which we now stand in, from the convent and her devotions. The temple was burnt by the Gauls in 390 , when the Vestalsescaped to Caere: and it was again burnt in 241 , when thePontifex Maximus Metellus lost his eyesight in saving the preciousPenates {sacra fataUa) treasured in the House, and upon which thesafety of Ivome was supposed to depend. In the great fire undei.

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