Temple of Vesta (The temple in the Roman Forum of great antiquity; there burned the perpetual fire of the public hearth attended by the Vestal Virgins)

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• Vesta — /ves teuh/, n. 1. the ancient Roman goddess of the hearth, worshiped in a temple containing an altar on which a sacred fire was kept burning by the vestal virgins: identified with the Greek Hestia. 2. Astron. the third largest and one of the four …   Universalium