Editing Pudicitia (section)

==The goddess==
According to [[Livy]], there were two temples of Pudicitia in Rome, the [[Temple of Pudicitia Patricia]] and the [[Temple of Pudicitia Plebeia]]. The original one was for women of the [[Patrician (ancient Rome)|patrician]] class only, but when [[Verginia (wife of Lucius Volumnius Flamma)|Verginia]] was excluded on account of marrying a [[plebs|plebeian]] [[Roman consul|consul]], she and a group of plebeian matrons founded an altar of Pudicitia for women of the [[plebeian]] class as well. Livy states that the plebeian shrine of Pudicitia eventually fell into disuse after its sacred character had been abused.

According to [[Juvenal]], at the end of the Iron Age humanity had grown so cruel and greedy that Pudicitia along with her sister [[Astraea]], goddess of justice, abandoned the earth and returned to the sky, leaving humans to deal with their evil unguided.<ref>[[Juvenal]], ''[[Satires (Juvenal)|Satires]]'' [https://archive.org/details/juvenalpersiuswi00juveuoft/juvenalpersiuswi00juveuoft/page/84/mode/2up?view=theater 6.10–20]</ref>