Meaning of virgo | Babel Free

Definitions

1. a maiden, maid; an unmarried young woman or girl (typically nubile, i.e., of marriageable age and social status)
   declension-3
2. Virgo (constellation)
   declension-3
3. a male given name, character in the play Persa by Plautus
   declension-3
4. an unmarried young man
   Christian, broadly, declension-3, rare
5. a virgin; someone female who has never experienced (penile–vaginal) sexual intercourse
   declension-3
6. a male virgin
   Ecclesiastical, Latin, broadly, declension-3
7. a young woman, girl
   broadly, declension-3

Equivalents

Examples

“Mater virginis in medio est.”

The maiden's mother is alive.

“Imitatus esses ipsum illum Q. Voconium, qui lege sua hereditatem ademit nulli neque virgini neque mulieri: sanxit in posterum, qui post eos censores census esset, ne quis heredem virginem neve mulierem faceret.”

1928 translation by L. H. G. Greenwood You might well have followed the example of Quintus Voconius himself, then: for his law did not deprive any girl or woman of her position of heiress if she had it already; it merely enjoined that no one, registered after the year of the censors named, should make a girl or woman his heiress in future.

“Peiore res loco non potis est esse quam in quo nunc sitast. Primum indotatast. Tum praeterea, quae secunda ei dos erat,”

2001 translation by John Barsby Matters couldn’t be worse than they are now. First, she has no dowry. Then she’s lost the next best thing: she can’t be given in marriage as a virgin. There’s one thing left...

“Sunt autem qui putant nonnunquam posse complexione supersederi, cum id perspicuum sit quod conficiatur ex ratiocinatione; quod si fiat, bipertitam quoque fieri argumentationem, hoc modo: "Si peperit, virgo non est: peperit autem."”

1949 translation by H. M. Hubbell There are, moreover, those who think that one may at times dispense with the conclusion when the result of the reasoning is perfectly clear; in this case the argument may also have only two parts, as follows: "If she has borne a child, she is not a virgin; but she has borne a child.

“quid mīrum, virgō sī virgine laeta ministrā admittit castās ad sua sacra manūs? What wonder [is there] if a virgin, [who] delights in [having] a virgin attendant, admits [only] chaste hands to her sacred rites? (See Vesta (mythology); Vestalia.)”

“Alterius partis color nihil habet difficultatis: adparet quas praeposui. Dicendum est in puellam vehementer, non sordide nec obscene. Sordide, ut Bassus Iulius, qui dixit: "extra portam hanc virginem" et: "ostende istam aeruginosam manum," Vibius Rufus, qui dixit: "redolet adhuc fuliginem fornicis." Obscene, quemadmodum Murredius rhetor, qui dixit: “unde scimus an cum venientibus pro virginitate alio libidinis genere deciderit?" Hoc genus sensus memini quendam praetorium dicere, cum declamaret controversiam de illa quae egit cum viro malae tractationis quod virgo esset et damnavit: postea petit sacerdotium. Novimus, inquit, istam maritorum abstinentiam qui, etiamsi primam virginibus timidis remisere noctem, vicinis tamen locis ludunt. Audiebat illum Scaurus, non tantum disertissimus homo sed venustissimus, qui nullius umquam inpunitam stultitiam transire passus est; statim Ovidianum illud: "inepta loci," et ille excidit nec ultra dixit.”

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