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37. M'. Acilio C. Porcio coss. AUC 640/114 BC

Text Translation
P. Elvius eques Romanus a ludis Romanis cum in Apuliam reverteretur, in agro Stellati filia eius virgo equo insidens fulmine icta exanimataque, vestimento deducto in inguinibus, exerta lingua, per inferiores locos ut ignis ad os emicuerit. responsum infamiam virginibus et equestri ordini portendi, quia equi ornamenta dispersa erant. tres uno tempore virgines Vestales nobilissimae cum aliquot equitibus Romanis incesti poenas subierunt. aedes Veneri Verticordiae facta. In Apulia when P. Elvius a Roman knight was returning from the Roman games, in the territory of Stella, his unmarried daughter sitting astride her horse was struck and killed by lightning, her clothing was stripped from her privates, her tongue stuck out, as though the fire had leapt through her lower regions to her mouth. The response was that this portended disgrace to young maidens and the equestrian order, because the decorations of the horse had been disarrayed. At the same time three of the most noble Vestal Virgins paid the penalty for incest with some Roman knights. A temple to Venus Verticordia was built.