Sibyls Sentence Examples

As to the number and native countries of the Sibyls much diversity of opinion prevailed.

It included also a number of forgeries, circulated under the names of famous Greek authors, verses fathered upon Aeschylus or Sophocles, or books like the false Hecataeus, or above all the pretended prophecies of ancient Sibyls in epic verse.

Elsewhere we see prophets and sibyls, personifications of the theological virtues and of the sciences.

But Caiaphas is not like Tiresias, nor the sibyls, still less the Hebrew prophets or John the Baptist.