User:Alastair Haines/virgo
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- a maid, maiden, virgin (cf. puella).
- literal
- (a) in general; virgo filia, virgin daughter -- Cicero, On the Commonwealth 2:37:63
- (b) in particular, of particular virgins; of Diana -- Horatius Flaccus, Carmina 1:12:22
- by association
- (a) in general, of young women; Ovid, Loves 6:133
- (b) in general, of male virgins; in the Church Fathers
- (c) the constellation Virgo
- (d) Aqua Virgo, a spring discovered by a young girl,
- and the aqueduct from this to Rome constructed by Marcus Agrippa
- (e) in general, of things; adjectival appellative for unwedded, pure, unused
- terra virgo, untilled soil -- Pliny the Elder, Natural History 33:3:15:52