School of Vestals
The vestal virgins were girls
chosen for a period of thirty years. In the first ten years they
learned their duties, in the second ten they practiced them, and during
the third they instructed the novices. Besides tending the sacred fire,
the vestals offered sacrifice and poured on the altar libations of wine
and oil. They occupied seats of honor at public games. Like the
members of later Christian sisterhoods, they were bound by vows not to
marry.
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