User:Alastair Haines/virgo


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


 * 1) virgin (generally female)
 * 2) *Horace Carmina 1:12:22
 * proeliis audax. neque te silebo, Liber et saevis inimica virgo beluis, nec te, metuende certa Phoebe sagitta.
 * 1) young woman, maiden
 * 2)  pure, untouched