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"english": "The maiden's mother is alive.",
"ref": "160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe",
"text": "Mater virginis in medio est.",
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"english": "1928 translation by L. H. G. Greenwood\nYou 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.",
"ref": "70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem 2.1.107",
"text": "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.",
"translation": "1928 translation by L. H. G. Greenwood\nYou 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.",
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"english": "2001 translation by John Barsby\nMatters 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...",
"ref": "160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 346, (for metrical reasons, some editors amend this to virginī, although this form is not attested as an ablative for this word)",
"roman": "periit: pro virgine dari nuptum non potest. hoc relicuomst...",
"text": "Peiore res loco non potis est esse quam in quo nunc sitast.\nPrimum indotatast. Tum praeterea, quae secunda ei dos erat,",
"translation": "2001 translation by John Barsby\nMatters 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...",
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"english": "1949 translation by H. M. Hubbell\nThere 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.",
"ref": "84 BCE, Cicero, De inventione 1.72",
"text": "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.\"",
"translation": "1949 translation by H. M. Hubbell\nThere 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.",
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"ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.289–290",
"text": "quid mīrum, virgō sī virgine laeta ministrā\nadmittit castās ad sua sacra manūs?\nWhat wonder [is there] if a virgin, [who] delights in [having] a virgin attendant, admits [only] chaste hands to her sacred rites?\n(See Vesta (mythology); Vestalia.)",
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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "c. 37 CE – 41 CE, Seneca Maior, Controversiae 1.2.22",
"text": "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.",
"translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
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"english": "[…] that a certain Decimus Virginius was obliged, on account of the libidinous violence of one of these decemvirs, to stab his virgin daughter in the midst of the forum",
"ref": "54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 2.37.63",
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"text": "Secreta quaere carmina et rudes curas,\nquas novit unus scrinioque signatas\ncustodit ipse virginis pater chartae,",
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"english": "1928 translation by L. H. G. Greenwood\nYou 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.",
"ref": "70 BCE, Cicero, In Verrem 2.1.107",
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"translation": "1928 translation by L. H. G. Greenwood\nYou 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.",
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"english": "2001 translation by John Barsby\nMatters 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...",
"ref": "160 BCE, Publius Terentius Afer, Adelphoe 346, (for metrical reasons, some editors amend this to virginī, although this form is not attested as an ablative for this word)",
"roman": "periit: pro virgine dari nuptum non potest. hoc relicuomst...",
"text": "Peiore res loco non potis est esse quam in quo nunc sitast.\nPrimum indotatast. Tum praeterea, quae secunda ei dos erat,",
"translation": "2001 translation by John Barsby\nMatters 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...",
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"english": "1949 translation by H. M. Hubbell\nThere 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.",
"ref": "84 BCE, Cicero, De inventione 1.72",
"text": "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.\"",
"translation": "1949 translation by H. M. Hubbell\nThere 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.",
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"ref": "8 CE, Ovidius, Fasti 6.289–290",
"text": "quid mīrum, virgō sī virgine laeta ministrā\nadmittit castās ad sua sacra manūs?\nWhat wonder [is there] if a virgin, [who] delights in [having] a virgin attendant, admits [only] chaste hands to her sacred rites?\n(See Vesta (mythology); Vestalia.)",
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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "c. 37 CE – 41 CE, Seneca Maior, Controversiae 1.2.22",
"text": "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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"english": "[…] that a certain Decimus Virginius was obliged, on account of the libidinous violence of one of these decemvirs, to stab his virgin daughter in the midst of the forum",
"ref": "54 BCE – 51 BCE, Cicero, De re publica 2.37.63",
"text": "[…] cum Decimus quidam Verginius virginem filiam propter unius ex illis X viris intemperiem in foro sua manu interemisset",
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"english": "[…] virgin soil […]",
"ref": "77 CE – 79 CE, Plinius Maior, Naturalis Historia 33.15",
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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "86 CE – 103 CE, Martialis, Epigrammata 1.66.7",
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"text": "Secreta quaere carmina et rudes curas,\nquas novit unus scrinioque signatas\ncustodit ipse virginis pater chartae,",
"translation": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "C.I.L. 6.24633",
"text": "D. M. L. Pomponius Pantagathus comparavit monumentum virginem sibi et suis p.que",
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"english": "(please add an English translation of this quotation)",
"ref": "Inscr. Orell. 4566",
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