Corn. Cethegus, and Qu. Sulpitius (Roman Priests) were put out of Office; the one, because he let fall the Apex (which the Priests carried) in Sacrificing, from his Head; the others, because he did not place the Entrals of the Victim aright.
The Druids, if any person, private or publick, (engaged in Controversy) will not stand to their de∣termination, they forbid them the Sacrifices, Caesar de Bell. Gall. They sit in a Consecrated place, whither all come for the hearing of Controversies. The persons thus suspended were accounted impi∣ous and execrable: All men shun'd their com∣pany.
The Unclean were driven away from Sacrifices by the Herald, crying, Procul este profani.
Vestal Virgins, becoming incontinent, were bound alive, carried on a Bier, through the Forum, with great silence and horrour; set on a Ladder, by which she descended into a Cave (where was pre∣pared a Bed, a burning Light, a little Bread, Water and Milk): the Ladder drawn up, the Cave's Mouth was filled up with earth, either that such an offender might not be honour'd with burning, or that being a Consecrate Virgin, she might dye, as it were, of her own accord, saith Plutar.