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Sibyllae

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Sibyllae
women endowed with prophetic powers who interceded with gods for men. [Gk. Myth.: Zimmerman, 239]
See : Prophecy


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As she spoke these words to him before the doors, suddenly neither face nor color was the same, the hair did not remain braided; but her chest heaves, her heart swells with frenzy, and she seems taller, nor does her voice sound like a mortal as now the breath of a deity is blown closer: Excisum Euboicae latus ingens rupis in antrum, / quo lati ducunt aditus centum, ostia centum, / unde ruunt totidem voces, response Sibyllae.
165r, "Satis superque nobis feminei sexus dignitatem ostendunt Sibyllae decem, ve1 ut Augustinus sentire videtur duodecim quae divino spiritu afflatae Troianum excidium, Alexandri regnum, Romanorum potentiam, Christi optimi maximi adventum dilucide praedixerunt.
23) use the word consilium instead of mens; the former wrote: "Vates Sibyllae sint a veteribus nuncupatae .
 
 
 
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