Re: 8 December - Immaculate Conception of Our Lady
The Old Scriptures, hey?  I see where you are coming from! 
(Mynydd is piling up the lumbers for the pire of the purifying fire  )
virgo:
virgo , ĭnis, f. root varg-; Sanscr. ūrg, strength, ūrga-jami, nourish; Gr. ὀργάω, to swell, ὀργή, impulse,
I. a maid, maiden, virgin (cf. puella).
I. Lit.
A. In gen.: “cum Sabinas honesto ortas loco virgines rapi jussit,” Cic. Rep. 2, 7, 12: “(oratio philosophorum) casta, verecunda, virgo incorrupta,” id. Or. 19, 64: “bellica,” i. e. Pallas, Ov. M. 4, 754; Sil. 7, 459: “Saturnia,” i. e. Vesta, Ov. F. 6, 383: “Vestalis,” Cic. Rep. 2, 14, 26; 3, 10, 17.—In apposition: “virgo filia,” Cic. Rep. 2, 37, 63: dea, the virgin goddess, i. e. Diana, Ov. M. 12, 28; Mart. 10, 92, 8.—Transf., of female animals that have not coupled, Plin. 28, 9, 41, § 147: “lea,” Stat. Th. 12, 357: “porca,” Mart. 13, 56, 1.—Adject.: “carnes,” Plin. 28, 4, 10, § 43; cf. “equa,” Pall. 1, 35 fin.: “buculae,” Arn. 7, 224.—
B. In partic., of particular virgins.—Of a Vestal: “qui esset decimus annus post Virginum absolutionem,” Cic. Cat. 3, 4, 9; Hor. C. 3, 30, 9: “virgines sanctae,” the Vestals, id. ib. 1, 2, 27.— Of Diana, Hor. C. 1, 12, 22; 3, 22, 1.—Of the Danaides, Hor. C. 3, 11, 26.—Of Astrœa, Verg. E. 4, 6.— |
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accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
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et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
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–Plato–
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