Episode CXXVI - Vestal Virgins
Emperors of Rome
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How to Choose a Vestal Virgin?
Details for how they are chosen come up quite later in our source material. There seems to be different systems at different time periods, but i gather a ritual evolves. Young girls were considered, if they'd live to six, likely to live on to adult hood. And a priestess must have a perfectly formed voice and an unblemished body.
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