A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Æmelia
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ÆMELIA,
Was, according to Dionysius, and Valerius Maximus, a vestal virgin, who being condemned to die for her negligence in allowing the sacred fire, which it was her duty to watch and feed, to become extinguished, rekindled the embers miraculously by throwing her veil over them.