Ἑστιάδες
Hestiades
Translated by Kostas Zafeiris4 Nov 2005Vetting: high7 revisions
Translation
[Meaning] the priestesses,1
... whom Helena the mother of Constantine the Great, after finding the holy and precious cross and raising a church on the tomb of the Lord, proclaimed in writing that the virgins in the precincts of prayer should also be provided with food out of the public [purse]. Having accomplished these things and lived for some eighty years, she died. And her son buried her body in the imperial [tombs] in Rome.2
"I would not say that they are hiding anything secret, as the Vestals [hide] the fire."3
... whom Helena the mother of Constantine the Great, after finding the holy and precious cross and raising a church on the tomb of the Lord, proclaimed in writing that the virgins in the precincts of prayer should also be provided with food out of the public [purse]. Having accomplished these things and lived for some eighty years, she died. And her son buried her body in the imperial [tombs] in Rome.2
"I would not say that they are hiding anything secret, as the Vestals [hide] the fire."3