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    Author: * Nantonos Aedui - 3 Posts on this thread out of 209 Posts sitewide.
    Date: Feb 10, 2004 - 14:53

    A mediaeval painting by Mantegna, showing Tuccia carryingwater in a seive: at the National Galery, London

    Another picture, this one pen and ink wash, of Tuccia by Domenico Piola.

    The story is told in by Pliny the Elder (23-79ce) in 'Natural History' (28: 12)

    durat inmenso exemplo Deciorum patris filiique, quo se devovere, carmen; extat Tucciae Vestalis incesti deprecatio, qua usa aquam in cribro tulit anno urbis DXVIIII.

    and in book 8 of Valeri Maximi Factorum et Dictorum Memorabilium, which gives a little more detail and cites the river tiber as the source of the water:

    8.1.abs.5 Eodem auxilii genere Tucciae virginis Vestalis incesti criminis reae castitas infamiae nube obscurata emersit. quae conscientia certa sinceritatis suae spem salutis ancipiti argumento ausa petere est: arrepto enim cribro "Vesta" inquit, "si sacris tuis castas semper admovi manus, effice ut hoc hauriam e Tiberi aquam et in aedem tuam perferam." audaciter et temere iactis votis sacerdotis rerum ipsa natura cessit.


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