Reading notes

• The Aeneid §1.292 Vesta

  Goddess of the hearth-fire; invoked among the gods of the fatherland, and drenched with nectar in Cyrene's rite.

• The Aeneid §2.296 Vesta

  Goddess of the hearth-fire; Hector entrusts her and the eternal flame to Aeneas.

• The Aeneid §9.259 Vesta

  Goddess of the hearth, by whose inner shrine Ascanius conjures Nisus.

• The Georgics §1.498 Vesta

  Goddess of the hearth-fire, keeper of Rome with the Tiber and the Palatine.