The Vestal Virgins and the Magistrates

The vestal virgin's body is ritually supposed to be inviolable. This leads them to have a sort of special capability when it comes to criminals. When they appear in public, the fasces are carried before them and if they accidentally meet a criminal on his way to execution, his life is spared - but he must make an oath that the meeting was involuntary and fortuitous. Anything outside the city is beyond their jurisdiction. So as long as they're inside, glue you to the ground. They get certain powers over people, it almost seems. And i know tha they get good seats at the games and things like that. There were vestal virgin boxes. They probably