A.U.C. 334: about this dateFor a sexual misdemeanour, which she denied,The vestal virgin Postumia was tried.Livy records it among affairs of state.
They let her off: it seems she was perfectly pure;The charge arose because some thought her talkToo witty for a young girl, her eyes, her walkTook lively, her clothes too smart to be demure.
The Pontifex Maximus, summing up the case,
