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| − | ==Cicero De Domo sua ad Pontifices 144-5==
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| − | Mother Vesta, I pray to You, whose most chaste Vestales I have
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| − | defended against pillage and desecration by demented men; for their
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| − | eternal flame I could not allow to pass, extinguished in the blood of
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| − | citizens, or Your pure flame be intermingled with a conflagration
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| − | sweeping the entire city.
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| − | I call You as witness, I place myself and my family in Your hands, in
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| − | these struggles I devoted myself and my life, while consul and
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| − | before, without regard for my own interests, or for profit, but
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| − | strove in all my actions and thoughts with vigilance for the safety
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| − | and health of all my fellow citizens, then, that someday I might bid
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| − | to enjoy seeing the Republic restored at last. But if my counsel had
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| − | not benefited my country, then in perpetual misery would I suffer,
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| − | departed from my family, friends and all sustenance. When by Your
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| − | favor my home is restored to me, may I at long last be allowed to
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| − | consider it demonstrated that this devotion of my life has met with
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| − | the approval of the Gods.
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| − | ==Ovid Fast 3.426-28==
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| − | Vesta, watch over him whose hand tends the Holy Fire. Live well,
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| − | fires. O live, I pray, undying flames.
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| − | ==Ovid Fasti 4.827-32==
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| − | Then king Romulus said, "As I found this city, be present, Jupiter,
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| − | Father Mars, and Mother Vesta, and all gods who it is pious to
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| − | summon, join together to attend. Grant that my work may rise with
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| − | Your auspices. Grant that it may for many years hold dominion on
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| − | earth, and assert its power over the east and west.
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| − | ==Ovid Fasti 6.249-50==
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| − | Vesta favor me. To You now our voices lift in praise as by this rite
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| − | it is allowed that we may approach You.
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| − | ==Valerius Maximus 8.1.5 (absol.) ==
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| − | (Vestal Virgin Tuccia prayed for proof of her innocence:) O Vesta, if
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| − | I have always brought pure hands to your secret services, make it so
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| − | now that with this sieve I shall be able to draw water from the Tiber
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| − | and bring it to Your temple.
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| − | ==Vellius Paterculus II 131.1 ==
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| − | Jupiter Capitolinus, Mars Gradivus called progenitor and aide of the
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| − | Romans, Vesta, perpetual guardian of fire, and whatever divine powers
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| − | in this greatness of Roman sovereignty, the largest empire on earth,
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| − | exulted to the highest dignity, to You the public voice calls to
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| − | witness and to pray: guard, preserve, and protect this state, this
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| − | peace, this prince, and those who succeed to the Senate, by their
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| − | long standing, determined worthy to consider the most grave matters
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| − | among mortals.
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