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"As David and the sibyls say" : a sketch of the sibyls and the sibylline oracles (1905)

Monteiro, Mariana, White, Alfred, Canon · London : Sands & co. · leaf 40

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s Sibyla, on which account all theothers were called Sibyls. She wrote before thedestruction of Troy, and prophesied much ofPriam and Hecuba about the union of Paris andHelen. The Romans erected a statue in herhonour. Homer took many of her verses for hisIliad. She lived about the year 2802 B.C.… … Sil;illa DeliHica. [To Jaee page 6. THIRD SIBYL 7 She wrote very carefully concerning theIncarnation of the Divine Word, life and miraclesof Christ Our Lord, His betrayal, imprisonment.Passion and shameful death. Resurrection andAscension, with such good order and style, thatit reads more like the…

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