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Sibylline Books
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Sibylline Books
pl n
(Myth & Legend / Classical Myth & Legend) (in ancient Rome) a collection of prophetic sayings, supposedly bought from the Cumaean sibyl, bearing upon Roman policy and religion
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Technical refinements also allowed Isaac Casaubon to reassess the Hermetic Corpus and the Sibylline prophecies, as we learn in "Protestant versus Prophet: Isaac Casaubon on Hermes Trismegistus" and "The Strange Deaths of Hermes and the Sibyls.
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