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Pudicitia

Pudicitia was the Roman goddess of chastity and fidelity. And he was always represented as veiled. Pudicitia was also a feminine Roman virtue. Pudicitia was chastity, fidelity and piety attached to modesty. And was maintained by a woman’s father or male relatives and later by a husband. Pudicitia was expressed by staying at home and by remaining invisible and untouchable to the public world. In fact, women who were content with one marriage were honoured with the crown of Pudicitia as it was believed that the mind of a woman was uncorrupted and loyal only when she “did not know how to leave the bed on which her virginity had been laid down.”

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