How To Use Sibylline In A Sentence
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By order of the Sibylline books, in 399 B.C., the first _lectisternium_ was held in Rome to combat
Outlines of Greek and Roman Medicine
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As neither a cause nor a cure could be found for its fatal ravages, the senate ordered the Sibylline Books to be consulted.
The History of Rome, Vol. I
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The girl's sibylline countenance unnerved viewers who, as one critic put it, were almost ‘repelled by the directness and force of the painting.’
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-- The four chief sacred colleges, or societies, were the Keepers of the Sibylline Books, the College of Augurs, the College of
General History for Colleges and High Schools
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Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the sibylline wine.
Les Miserables
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Voluspa," or Song of the Prophetess, a kind of sibylline lay, which contains an account of the creation, the origin of man and of evil, and concludes with a prediction of the destruction and renovation of the universe, and a description of the future abodes of happiness and misery.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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The Sibylline Books had declared that when a foreign enemy was in Italy, he could be driven out, if the
Plutarch's Lives, Volume II
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She has a kind of sibylline intuition and the right to be irrationally
The Life of Reason
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The gods themselves, he maintained, must be consulted as to the necessary measures to avert their displeasure, and he succeeded in getting a decree passed that the decemvirs should be ordered to consult the Sibylline Books, a course which is only adopted when the most alarming portents have been reported.
The History of Rome, Vol. III
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Perhaps, if one extrapolates from Obama's sibylline statement: Mitt Romney gives the impression of being too much of a secularist and not enough a Christian or too much the supporter of a cult?
Denis Lacorne: Secularists Or Christian? The Religious Lives Of American Political Candidates In The Public Sphere
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It's confessional and ruminative, yet also clipped, ‘teacherly’ and sibylline.
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It's all there, and, thanks to Simak's skilled hand at the wheel, it's all in place: suave, sibylline, swift.
The stars of modern SF pick the best science fiction
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a kind of sibylline book with ready and infallible answers to questions
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The armies being disbanded, whilst there was both peace abroad, and tranquillity at home by reason of the concord of the different orders, lest matters might be too happy, a pestilence having attacked the state, compelled the senate to order the decemvirs to inspect the Sibylline books, and by their suggestion a lectisternium took place.
The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08
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This is how Australians looked to the sibylline travel writer Jan Morris in the 1980s.
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Voluspa," or Song of the Prophetess, a kind of sibylline lay, which contains an account of the creation, the origin of man and of evil, and concludes with a prediction of the destruction and renovation of the universe, and a description of the future abodes of happiness and misery.
Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities
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The Sibylline Books were consulted by the "duumviri," and a prediction was found of dangers which would result from a gathering of aliens, attempts on the highest points of the City and consequent bloodshed.
The History of Rome, Vol. I
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The supposed connection of the fourth Eclogue with the _Sibylline Books_, and through them, with the sacred wisdom of the Hebrews, of course placed Virgil on a different level from other heathens.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius
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It is an inward and sibylline sound of swazzle notes and speaking stones.
A Year on the Wing
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thoroughly sibylline in most of his pronouncements
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The cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the sibylline wine.
Les Miserables, Volume IV, Saint Denis
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You will grow up to be quite a reprobate, my scandalous pup—a favourite with the ladies … and the gentlemen, he predicted in a sibylline voice.
Exit the Actress
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I once felt that way - before I became a literary legend - ` sibylline muse," `genius's reclusive wife.
MOON PASSAGE
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But the Sibylline Books burned, along with our fasti of the consuls, the original Twelve Tables, and much else.”
Fortune's Favorites
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Neruda is master of a living world in turmoil, and his expression is at times scarcely more than a sibylline stammer, a primitive muttering.
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Mrs Atwater, in sibylline style, predicts of Philip: ‘These hands will bring you great fame.’
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It is an inward and sibylline sound of swazzle notes and speaking stones.
A Year on the Wing
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Owing to the unusual number of showers of stones which had fallen during the year, an inspection had been made of the Sibylline Books, and some oracular verses had been discovered which announced that whenever a foreign foe should carry war into Italy he could be driven out and conquered if the Mater Idaea were brought from Pessinus to Rome.
The History of Rome, Vol. IV
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[701] The idea that this number was "chthonic" and a monopoly of the Sibylline utterances was started by
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus