User:Alastair Haines/virgo

• a maid, maiden, virgin (cf. puella).

1. 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
2. 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

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1. virgin (generally female)
   • Horace Carmina 1:12:22

     proeliis audax. neque te silebo, Liber et saevis inimica virgo beluis, nec te, metuende certa Phoebe sagitta.

2. young woman, maiden
3. (adjectival) pure, untouched