(adj.adj.) : Vesta, ae, f.Sanscr. root vas, to burn; vasaras, day; whence also Gr. Εστία.
* Another name for Ops, Cybele, Terra, the wife of Coelus and mother of Saturn, Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 67; Ov. F. 6, 267.
* Her granddaughter, daughter of Saturn, the goddess of flocks and herds, and of the household in general, Cic. N. D. 2, 27, 67; id. Leg. 2, 12, 29; id. Div. 1, 45, 101; id. Fam. 14, 2, 2; id. de Or. 3, 3, 10; in her temple the holy fire burned perpetually, attended by the Vestal virgins,id. Leg. 2, 8, 20; id. Cat. 4, 9, 18; Liv. 28, 11; 4, 52: Vestae sacerdos, i. e. the Pontifex maximus, of Coesar, Ov. F. 5, 573; id. M. 15, 778.
* Poet., transf.
* The temple of Vesta: quo tempore Vesta Arsit Ov. F. 6, 437; cf. id. ib. 6, 234; 6, 713.
* Substt.
* Ve-stālis, is, f. (virgo), a priestess of Vesta, a Vestal, Liv. 1, 3 sq.; Plin. 28, 4, 7, § 39; Ov. F. 2, 383 al.—Hence, as adj.: Vestales oculi,of the Vestals,Ov. Tr. 2, 311.
* Ve-stālĭa, ĭum, n., the festival of Vesta, Varr. L. L. 6, 3, 17.