A virgin or malde. Adulta virgo. Ci. Animosa. Ouid. Aspera. Vir. Armata. Fest. Bellica virgo Pallas. Sil. Cassa virgo dote, Vide CASSVS. Corrupta virgo. Ouid. Non frigida virgo. Ouid. Iugatæ nondÛ thalamis virgines. Maidens not yet matied. Iuncea virgo, Vide IVNCVS. Laudatissima virgo dote formæ. Ouidius. A maydens most worthle dowrie is his fauout, or a mayde ercellentlye sec foorth with fauour. Matura virgo. Hor. A mayden mariable. Matura virovirgo, Vide MATVRVS. Nitidævirgines. Hor. Nobilis virgo in omne æuum. Hor. Pulcherrima virgo. Ouid. Regia. Ouid. Sanctæ virgines. Hor. Religious maydens, nunnes. Teneræ virgines. Hor. Abstinere virgine. Ter. Comprimere virginem, Vide COMPRIMO. Rapere ad virum virginem. Catul. Virgo, pro Muliere. Hor. A maried woman. Virgo equa. Plin. A mare neuer horsed. Virgines carnes. Plin. Virguncula. A little mayde.

I. Lit.

A. In gen.: cum Sabinas honesto ortas loco virgines rapi jussit, Cic. Rep. 2, 7, 12: (oratio philosophorum) casta, verecunda, virgo incorrupta, id. Or. 19, 64: bellica, i. e. Pallas, Ov. M. 4, 754; Sil. 7, 459: Saturnia, i. e. Vesta, Ov. F. 6, 383: Vestalis, Cic. Rep. 2, 14, 26; 3, 10, 17.—In apposition: virgo filia, Cic. Rep. 2, 37, 63: dea, the virgin goddess, i. e. Diana, Ov. M. 12, 28; Mart. 10, 92, 8.—Transf., of female animals that have not coupled, Plin. 28, 9, 41, 147: lea, Stat. Th. 12, 357: porca, Mart. 13, 56, 1.—Adject.: carnes, Plin. 28, 4, 10, 43; cf. equa, Pall. 1, 35 fin.: buculae, Arn. 7, 224.—

B. In partic., of particular virgins.—Of a Vestal: qui esset decimus annus post Virginum absolutionem, Cic. Cat. 3, 4, 9; Hor. C. 3, 30, 9: virgines sanctae, the Vestals, id. ib. 1, 2, 27.— Of Diana, Hor. C. 1, 12, 22; 3, 22, 1.—Of the Danaides, Hor. C. 3, 11, 26.—Of Astrœa, Verg. E. 4, 6.—

II. Transf.

A. In gen., of young females, a young woman, girl, Ov. H. 6, 133; Sil. 3, 435; Just. 1, 3, 2; Curt. 5, 1, 38; Verg. E. 6, 47; 6, 52; Hor. C. 2, 8, 23; 3, 14, 9.—

B. In the eccl. fathers, of males, Tert. Virg. Vel. 8; Hier. adv. Jovin. 1, 4; id. Ep. 22, 21; Paul. Nol. Carm. 22, 2. —

C. The constellation Virgo in the zodiac, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 42, 110; Hyg. Astr. 2, 25; 3, 24.—

D. Aqua Virgo, or simply Virgo, a stream of cold water brought to Rome in an aqueduct constructed by M. Agrippa (so called because a young girl discovered its source), now Fontana Trevi, Front. Aquaed. 10; Plin. 31, 3, 25, 42; Sen. Ep. 83, 5; Cassiod. Var. 7, 6; Ov. A. A. 3, 385; id. Tr. 3, 12, 22; Mart. 6, 42, 18; 11, 47, 6; 14, 163, 2 al.; cf. Becker, Antiq. 1, p. 703 sq.—

E. Of things; as an adjectival appellative for unwedded, pure, unused (mostly post-class.): senecta, i. e. unmarried, Tert. adv. Valent. 5: saliva, fasting, id. Jejun. 6: terra, untilled, Plin. 33, 3, 15, 52: charta, i. e. that has not been read or published, Mart. 1, 67, 7: EMIT ET COMPARAVIT LOCVM VIRGINEM, vacant, Inscr. Orell. 4566.