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Cumaean sibyl

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Cumaean sibyl
was granted long life by Apollo; when she rejected his love, he withheld eternal youth and she withered away. [Gk. Myth.: Metamorphoses, 14]
See : Age, Old

Cumaean sibyl
famous prophetess; leads Aeneas through underworld. [Rom. Lit.: Aeneid]
See : Guide


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He begins with a Latin edition of the book faced with English translation, and appends a discussion of Virgil's sources for the Cumaean Sibyl.
In his River Landscape with Apollo and the Cumaean Sibyl, in the Wallace Collection, the scenery of ancient Cumae, near Rosa's native Naples, is loosely described.
Reading Genesis, we experience the same thrill of recognition when we see Vergil's Cumaean Sibyl in Turner's prophet Hermione; when we catch glimpses of Dante's Beatrice in Turner's; when Hesiod's Gala (Earth) reappears as Gaea Van Riebeck; even when we discover that the Finnish epic Kalevala has loaned its name to a spaceship.
 
 
 
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