Vesta was the virgin goddess. She represented in the world neither fecundity nor power; she was order, but not rigorous, abstract, mathematical order, the imperious and unchangeable law, which was early perceived in physical nature. She was moral order.

— Numa Denis Fustel de Coulanges The Ancient City: A Study on the Religion, Laws, and Institutions of Greece and Rome (1877)

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