Philological Dissertation on Honored, Learned, Adored, and Fruitful Virginity

She cultivates undefiled.
Nor do these words of Arethusa in Ovid, Metamorphoses 5, imply anything else:

And in which others are accustomed to rejoice, I, a rustic, blushed at the gift
of my body, and thought it a crime to please.
Or these words of the Virgin already about to die, Metamorphoses 13:
Be far away, if I ask for what is just, and remove virile touches
from a virginal hand, more acceptable to him, etc.
Rhodiginus, in Book 3 of Ancient Readings, Chapter 6, near the end, says: "Roman majesty granted such honor to Modesty Pudicitia the personified virtue of modesty/chastity that every rank of dignity was accustomed to step aside from the path for Virgins." This is indeed true, but for any Virgin? Or only for a sacred one, or a priestess? One must look at Chapter 26 of the first book of St. Jerome against Jovinian regarding this matter, which seemed worthy of being transcribed here in its entirety, because it is entirely in praise of foreign Virgins. But I would not wish to repeat what has already been said, and I have another purpose; I will by no means pass over that which he did not touch upon regarding Parthenope. Dionysius, in his Periēgēsis description of the earth:

Here, he says, is the palace of chaste Parthenope: concerning which place Eustathius writes: "Parthenope, having been besieged by many men, and having guarded her virginity, then having fallen in love with Metiochus the Phrygian, cut her hair, judging herself to be unadorned, and going to the Campanians, she dwelt there. And perhaps on account of this self-restraint, Dionysius named Parthenope chaste." Parthenope, having been sought after by many men with snares, and holding fast to her virginity...