Several of the declaimers refer to the idea that the accused woman did not die because she was saved by the gods, perhaps specifically by Vesta. Although they do not mention it, there are precedents for this. Dionysius of Halicarnassus (a close contemporary of Seneca the Elder) relates two cases of Vestals who were unjustly accused of incestus and were saved by calling on Vesta to aid them. (Antiquitates Romanae 2.68 and 2.69)