A handbook of legendary and mythological art (1872)
Waters, Clara Erskine Clement, 1834-1916 · New York, Hurd and Houghton · leaf 294
ain she burnedthree, and again returned with tlie three remaining. Then Tar-quin sought the advice of the soothsayers, and they assured him thai ILLUSTRATED IN ART. 277 the destinies of the world depended upon the preservation of theseoracles. So they were bought, and for centui-ies after were… … (Baldassare Peruzzi.) Propliecy of the Sib>l. wide all through the empire to collect the scattered Sibylline leaves,and as many as were found were again carefully preserved. ITieidea of the ancient Romans, as recorded by Tacitus and Suetonius,that those who should rule the world should come out…
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