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Sibylline (adjective): Mysterious, cryptic, or prophetic in nature
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- Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books.
- Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
- Occult, mysterious.
- Excessively and exorbitantly expensive. (In allusion to the Sibyl who sold three books to Tarquinius Superbus at the price of the original nine.)
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Sibyls and sibylline prophecy in classical antiquity.
Sometimes it is even held that they are ambiguous and sibylline.
That is a collection of Sibylline verses rejected from the official book.
They have built themselves a chimeric universe governed by sibylline symbols.
The Sibylline books were probably also consulted in this way.
But as much to say that the answer is still at least sibylline.
The prosecution offered two Sibylline prophecies in support of the final verdicts.
Some records indicate that the Sibylline oracles.
The Sibylline books had prescribed the dedication as a cure for the prevailing licentiousness of women.
The return of the golden age predicted by the Sibylline oracles.
The Sibylline Books were a collection of oracular sayings.
For the evil of caves Sibylline.
He gave orders that the Sibylline Oracles should be consulted.
The Sibylline Books were also consulted and confirmed this prophecy.
We have the original Sibylline book.
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On these sibylline words I left him.
Then they carried the law on the sacred Sibylline Books.
Christians believe the Sibylline book prophesies the arrival of Christ.
Daniel the book of Enoch and certain parts of the Sibylline.
It is a modern Sibylline book.
I beg audience with the High Priestess of the Sibylline.
And had this two sibylline sentences as epigraph,.
The earliest written version of this legend is found in the Sibylline Oracles.
Some of the sibylline seers are shown as aged, bent, alarmed by their prophetic insight.
Tartarus also appears in sections of the Jewish Sibylline Oracles.
So why does not the Sibylline book have pride of place?
More than once, they attack each other in sibylline fashion.
Years ago, the Sibylline books were kept in an ebony chest.
All glamorous jobs, so not beneath the dignity of the sibylline partygoer from a dying line.
The so-called Sibylline oracles are couched in classical hexameter verses.
Nevertheless, you must recognise that this leads to the birth of texts with sibylline charm.
Voluspa is a sort of Sibylline book, or cosmogonic oracle, as its name indicates.
Oh, she has been promised to the Sibylline Sisterhood.
So why does not the Sibylline book have pride of place? Because people are converted.
The text in question comes from the Sibylline Oracles,.
Oh, she has been promised to the Sibylline Sisterhood . They say she has remarkable visions.
Before Maxentius left Rome, he consulted the Sibylline books.
To Rome he brought the Sibylline Books, containing a part of the science of Hermes.
At last Tarquin accepted, in this way obtaining the Sibylline Books.
The Sibylline Mysteries say, “ the Golden One shall arrive again in the entire Earth.
We have found it, Sister Spurrina, in the thirteenth book of the Sibylline Oracles.
Have you ever met a Sibylline monk, traitor?
Concerning the course and purpose of these meetings, the town hall remains, again, sibylline.
You found the Sibylline book?
The Sibylline Oracles are wrong!
It 's a page from the Sibylline book.
The Sibylline book?
He later published the poem and his translation in his collection Sibylline Leaves of 1817.
What is Sibylline books?
Translated from Greek, the passage from the Sibylline Oracles reads,.
