Requirements included that they be the freeborn children of freeborn parents, have both parents alive, and be free from mental or physical defect.  
According to legend, their rites were first introduced by Numa and continued until the suppression of pagan practices in 394 CE.  Requirements included that they be the freeborn children of freeborn parents, have both parents alive, and be free from mental or physical defect.  Because their blood could not be shed, if they violated their most sacred vow they were buried alive although their lovers were whipped to death by the Comitium.  FTP, name this group of six women who tended the sacred fire of the Roman goddess of the hearth.
According to legend, their rites were first introduced by Numa and continued until the suppression of pagan practices in 394 CE.  
Vestal Virgins