Everything about Tuccia totally explained
Tuccia was a
Vestal Virgin whose chastity was questioned by a spurious accusation. When the piety of holy men and women was doubted by sceptics, the gods could perform miracles to justify them.
Tuccia's decision to prove her innocence is recounted:
» O Vesta, if I've always brought pure hands to your secret services, make it so now that with this sieve I'll be able to draw water from the Tiber and bring it to Your temple (Vestal Virgin Tuccia in
Valerius Maximus 8.1.5 absol).
Tuccia proved her innocence by carrying a full of water from the
Tiber to the Temple of Vesta [Augustine,De Civitate Dei, X, 16, in Worsfold, 69].
The Vestal Tuccia was celebrated in
Pliny the Elder's
Natural History (28: 12) and
Petrarch's
Triumph of Chastity. However in Juvenal's Satire VI (famously renamed 'Against Women') he references her as one of many lascivious women.
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