The last named he immediately saluted as Augusta and appointed her priestess of Augustus, giving her at once all the privileges pertaining to the vestal virgins.

It is not indispensably necessary to sacrifice to the Goddess whose worship is carried on there; but you may limit yourself to admire the temple, call for refreshments and contemplate the priestesses.

There should be a thanksgiving on his birthday and on the anniversary of the announcement of the victory: when he entered the city the (vestal virgin) priestesses, the senate and the people, with their wives and children, were to meet him.

"Don't you know that the afflatus always exhausts the priestess?

If fate's dread mandate doth not seal thy lips, From which of our illustrious races say, Dost thou thy godlike origin derive? IPHIGENIA The priestess whom the goddess hath herself Selected and ordained, doth speak with thee.

There are four settlements or villages (or, as the negroes call them, camps) on the island, consisting of from ten to twenty houses, and to each settlement is annexed a cook's shop with capacious cauldrons, and the oldest wife of the settlement for officiating priestess.

Doth the glow Of holy rage unbridled thus possess The sacred priestess?

Then will I call the gods, and chiefly thee, Diana, goddess resolute, to aid me; Thyself a virgin, wilt a virgin shield, And to thy priestess gladly render aid.

"Thou wert the priestess of this temple?" "I was.