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Fonteia

Fonteia, sister of the defendant M. Fonteius, a Vestal Virgin whose presence in the courtroom and at the altar of Vesta Cicero invokes pathetically as the climax of Pro Fonteio 46-49. The first known Vestal of the Fonteian house.

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