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The Sibylline Books
The Sibylline Books
Written By Mister Gu on Tuesday, October 22, 2013 | 4:00 AM
The Sibylline books were a collection of manuscripts which embodied the secrets of human destiny, the work of the prophetesses of the ancient world. According to Tacitus, these books were first preserved in the Capitol. The oldest collection of Sibylline books appears to have been made about the time of Solon and Cyrus at Gergis on Mount Ida in the Troad; it was attributed to the Hellespontine