• The Sibylline Books (Latin: Libri Sibyllini) were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameter verses, that, according to tradition...
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    The Sibylline Oracles (Latin: Oracula Sibyllina; sometimes called the pseudo-Sibylline Oracles)[citation needed] are a collection of oracular utterances...
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  • Sibylline is a Belgian comics series by Raymond Macherot and his second best-known work after Chlorophylle. Just like the latter, it is a fantasy comic...
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    Delphi (redirect from Sibylline Rock)
    Delphi (/ˈdɛlfaɪ, ˈdɛlfi/; Greek: Δελφοί [ðelˈfi]), in legend previously called Pytho (Πυθώ), was an ancient sacred precinct and the seat of Pythia, the...
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    ante quem for a Cumaean sibyl. She is said to have sold the original Sibylline books to Tarquinius Superbus, the last king of Rome. In Virgil's Fourth...
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    Sibylline Leaves: A Collection of Poems is a volume of poems by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, first published in 1817. Poems Preface Time, Real and Imaginary...
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    The Sibillini Mountains, or Sibylline Mountains (Italian: Monti Sibillini) are one of the major mountain groups in the Italian Peninsula, and part of...
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  • Olivier Saive Sibylline et la betterave (Dupuis, 1967) Sibylline en danger (Dupuis, 1969) Sibylline et les abeilles (Dupuis, 1971) Sibylline et le petit...
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    The Arabic Sibylline prophecy is a set of Christian apocalyptic texts based on the tradition of the Tiburtine Sibyl. The original version of the prophecy...
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    of Jesus Christ. This claim comes from the Sibylline Oracles, which are not to be confused with the Sibylline Books. The Hellespontian Sibyl was born in...
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    (s), sōtḗr (Σωτήρ), "Savior" Augustine quotes an ancient text from the Sibylline oracles whose verses are an acrostic of the generating sentence. A fourth...
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    all appear in various references. The story of the acquisition of the Sibylline Books by Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, the semi-legendary last king of the...
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    kingdoms, becoming lord of the world (3.73.7–8). Cronus is mentioned in the Sibylline Oracles, particularly in book three, wherein Cronus, 'Titan,' and Iapetus...
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    author of the Sibylline oracles, a collection of texts of c. the 2nd to 4th century which were collected in the 6th century. Sibylline oracles Wives aboard...
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    three sons each built a city named after their wives. According to the Sibylline Oracles, the wives of Shem, Ham, and Japheth enjoyed fantastically long...
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    Pseudathyma sibyllina, the Sibylline false sergeant, is a butterfly in the family Nymphalidae. It is found in Guinea, Sierra Leone, Liberia, Ivory Coast...
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    Nero's return. The earliest written version of this legend is found in the Sibylline Oracles. It claims that Nero did not really die but fled to Parthia, where...
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    Another version of the poem was published in the 1817 collection entitled Sibylline Leaves (see 1817 in poetry). On a surface level the poem explores a violation...
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    Prophetiae Sibyllarum ("Sibylline Prophecies" or "Sibylline Oracles") are a series of twelve motets by the Franco-Flemish composer Orlando di Lasso. The...
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    ("great Idaean mother of the gods"). The oldest collection of Sibylline utterances, the Sibylline Books, appears to have been made about the time of Cyrus...
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    original price. At last, Tarquin accepted, in this way obtaining the Sibylline Books. In 509 BC, having angered the Roman populace through the pace and...
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    Roman state adopted and developed a particular form of her cult after the Sibylline oracle in 205 BC recommended her conscription as a key religious ally...
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    its entirety, is a later addition. Pointing to similarities with the Sibylline Oracles and other earlier works, in 1976, J.T. Milik dated the Book of...
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    Elysium (Islands of the Blessed) with the "blameless" heroes. In the Sibylline oracles, a curious hodgepodge of Greco-Roman and Judaeo-Christian elements...
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    Sirach Book of Judith Book of Tobit 1 Maccabees 2 Maccabees 3 Maccabees 4 Maccabees Letter of Aristeas Sibylline Oracles Liber Antiquitatum Biblicarum...
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    a number of writers were stating that Nero killed Peter and Paul. The Sibylline Oracles, Book 5 and 8, written in the second century, speak of Nero returning...
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    the sixth anniversary of his reign, he approached the keepers of the Sibylline Books for guidance. The keepers prophesied that, on that very day, "the...
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    Homeric Hymns Interpretation of Dreams Myth of Er Oneirocritica Papyrus Graecus Holmiensis Sibylline Books Sortes Astrampsychi Theogony Works and Days...
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    before the beginning of the Second Punic War, in response to advice from a Sibylline oracle, when a series of prodigies was taken to signify divine displeasure...
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    Arkiel, Arkas) taught humans the signs of the earth. However, in the Sibylline Oracles, Araqiel is referred to not as a fallen angel, or watcher, but...
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