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                    "description": "virgo (noun F) : root varg-; Sanscr. ūrg, strength, ūrga-jami, nourish; Gr. ὀργάω, to swell, ὀργή, impulse\n* A maid, maiden, virgin (cf. puella).\n* Lit.\n* In gen.: cum Sabinas honesto ortas loco virgines rapi jussit,Cic. Rep. 2, 7, 12: (oratio philosophorum) casta, verecunda, virgo incorrupta,id. Or. 19, 64: bellica,i. e. Pallas,Ov. M. 4, 754; Sil. 7, 459: Saturnia,i. e. Vesta,Ov. F. 6, 383: Vestalis,Cic. Rep. 2, 14, 26; 3, 10, 17.—In apposition: virgo filia,Cic. Rep. 2, 37, 63: dea, the virgin goddess, i. e. Diana, Ov. M. 12, 28; Mart. 10, 92, 8.—Transf., of female animals that have not coupled, Plin. 28, 9, 41, § 147: lea,Stat. Th. 12, 357: porca,Mart. 13, 56, 1.—Adject.: carnes,Plin. 28, 4, 10, § 43; cf. equa,Pall. 1, 35 fin.: buculae,Arn. 7, 224.\n* Transf.\n* In gen., of young females, a young woman, girl, Ov. H. 6, 133; Sil. 3, 435; Just. 1, 3, 2; Curt. 5, 1, 38; Verg. E. 6, 47; 6, 52; Hor. C. 2, 8, 23; 3, 14, 9.\n* In the eccl. fathers, of males, Tert. Virg. Vel. 8; Hier. adv. Jovin. 1, 4; id. Ep. 22, 21; Paul. Nol. Carm. 22, 2.\n* The constellation Virgo in the zodiac, Cic. poët. N. D. 2, 42, 110; Hyg. Astr. 2, 25; 3, 24.\n* Aqua Virgo, or simply Virgo, a stream of cold water brought to Rome in an aqueduct constructed by M. Agrippa (so called because a young girl discovered its source), now Fontana Trevi, Front. Aquaed. 10; Plin. 31, 3, 25, § 42; Sen. Ep. 83, 5; Cassiod. Var. 7, 6; Ov. A. A. 3, 385; id. Tr. 3, 12, 22; Mart. 6, 42, 18; 11, 47, 6; 14, 163, 2 al.; cf. Becker, Antiq. 1, p. 703 sq.\n* Of things; as an adjectival appellative for unwedded, pure, unused (mostly post-class.): senecta,i. e. unmarried,Tert. adv. Valent. 5: saliva,fasting,id. Jejun. 6: terra,untilled,Plin. 33, 3, 15, § 52: charta, i. e. that has not been read or published, Mart. 1, 67, 7: EMIT ET COMPARAVIT LOCVM VIRGINEM,vacant,Inscr. Orell. 4566."
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