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Episode CXXVI - Vestal Virgins

Emperors of Rome

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The Roman Catholic Priesthood Under Augustus

The role of a vestal was traditionally held by patrician families. But under Augustus, it may have been opened up to the daughters of freedmen. The one who gets chosen gets two million sesterces o. So this is still pretty big.

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