JEPTE. Jeptha was a judge in Israel in the eleventh century B.C. After the defeat of the Ammonites, Jeptha vowed to sacrifice to God the first thing he met on his return home. To his great distress, his daughter ran to meet him. When he told her of his vow, she begged for time to weep and bewail her death while still a virgin (Judges 11:1-40).

Virginia asks her father for leisure to bewail her death, just as Jepte gave his daughter permission to complain before he slew her, PhysT 238-244. Virginia blesses God that she will die a maid, while Jeptha's daughter is quite upset that she must die a virgin. The passage illustrates the Physician's ignorance of the Bible, Gen Prol 438, for he studies the Bible very little. [Virginia: Virginius]

The form is the medieval Latin variant and appears medially, PhysT 240.