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Sibyl
Sibyl Sib"yl, n. [L. sibylla, Gr. ????.]
1. (Class. Antiq.) A woman supposed to be endowed with a
spirit of prophecy.
Note: The number of the sibyls is variously stated by
different authors; but the opinion of Varro, that there
were ten, is generally adopted. They dwelt in various
parts of Persia, Greece, and Italy.
2. A female fortune teller; a pythoness; a prophetess. ``An
old highland sibyl.' --Sir W. Scott.
Meaning of Sibyls from wikipedia
- The
sibyls were
prophetesses or
oracles in
Ancient Greece. The
sibyls prophesied at holy sites. A
sibyl at
Delphi has been
dated to as
early as the eleventh...
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Sibyl or
sibyl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sibyls were
oracular women believed to
possess prophetic powers in
ancient Greece.
Sybil or
Sibyl may...
- the
interior of
Santa Maria della Pace in Rome. The
painting shows four
Sibyls—****aean, Persian,
Phrygian and Tiburtine—accompanied by
attendant angels...
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meaning prophetess.
There were many
sibyls throughout the
ancient world.
Because of the
importance of the ****aean
Sibyl in the
legends of
early Rome as codified...
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Apollonian oracle. The word "
Sibyl"
comes (via Latin) from the
ancient Gr**** word sibylla,
meaning "prophetess".
There were many
Sibyls in the
ancient world,...
- In the
extended complement of
sibyls of the
Gothic and
Renaissance imagination, the
Phrygian Sibyl was the
priestess presiding over an
Apollonian oracle...
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Cybill Lynne Shepherd (born
February 18, 1950) is an
American actress,
singer and
former model. Her film
debut and
breakthrough role came as Jacy Farrow...
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women called Sibyls who were ****ociated with
religious centers. The
Sibyl of Dodona, was
dated to the
second millennium BC by Herodotus. A
Sibyl famous among...
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Sibyl Vane may
refer to:
Sibyl Vane, a main
character of
Oscar Wilde's
novel The
Picture of
Dorian Gray
Sibyl Vane, a main
character in
Vladimir Nabokov's...
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Prophets alternating with the
Sibyls.
These figures,
seven Old
Testament prophets and five of the Graeco-Roman
sibyls, were
notable in
Christian tradition...
