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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 Sibyl 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...
- ****aean
Sibyl (Latin:
Sibylla ****ana) was the
priestess presiding over the
Apollonian oracle at ****ae, a Gr****
colony near Naples, Italy. The word
sibyl comes...
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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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Hildegardis Bingensis; c. 1098 – 17
September 1179), also
known as the
Sibyl of the Rhine, was a
German Benedictine abbess and
polymath active as a writer...
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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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Sibyl or
Albunea was a
Roman sibyl,
whose seat was the
ancient Etruscan town of
Tibur (modern Tivoli). The
mythic meeting of
Augustus with the
Sibyl,...
- ****espontine
Sibyl was the
priestess presiding over the
Apollonian oracle at Dardania. The
Sibyl is
sometimes referred to as the
Trojan Sibyl. The word
Sibyl comes...
- 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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Sibyl is a 2019 comedy-drama film
directed by
Justine Triet from a
screenplay she co-wrote with
Arthur Harari, and
starring Virginie Efira, Adèle Exarchopoulos...
- 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...
