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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
- only one
sibyl, and
instances Heraclides Ponticus as the
first ancient writer to
distinguish several sibyls:
Heraclides names at
least three sibyls, the Phrygian...
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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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Sibyl or
sibyl in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
Sibyls were
oracular women believed to
possess prophetic powers in
ancient Greece.
Sybil or
Sibyl may...
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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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Apollonian oracle. The word "
Sibyl"
comes (via Latin) from the
ancient Gr**** word sibylla,
meaning "prophetess".
There were many
Sibyls in the
ancient world,...
- (i.e., ****ae). The word
Sibyl comes (via Latin) from the
ancient Gr**** word sibylla,
meaning prophetess.
There were many
sibyls in the
ancient world (e...
- In the
extended complement of
sibyls of the
Gothic and
Renaissance imagination, the
Phrygian Sibyl was the
priestess presiding over an
Apollonian oracle...
- Dame
Sibyl Mary
Hathaway DBE (née Collings,
formerly Beaumont; 13
January 1884 – 14 July 1974) was Dame of Sark from 1927
until her
death in 1974. Her...
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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...
- term
sibyl comes (via Latin) from the
ancient Gr**** word sibylla,
meaning prophetess.
There were many
Sibyls in the
ancient world, but the
Libyan Sibyl, in...
