Pudicitia
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a shrine to Pudicitia Patricia, patrician matronal virtue founded by Fabius
Rullianus in the Forum Boiarum, and only Patrician women who'd been married only once [in Latin a 'univir'] to patrician men could worship there. In 296 B.C. E. Verginia a patrician matrona married to a plebeian L. Volumnius Flamma was denied entrance to the shrine and founded her own to Pudicitia Plebeia, to cultivate modesty and restricted matrones who'd only been married once. Livy talks about it in Livy 10. 23.1-10 You can read all about it over in Google Books in "Women and Politics in Ancient Rome" Richard A. Bauman p. 15
