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Sibylline
Sibylline meaning
Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books. | Of or pertaining to or resembling a sibyl or female oracle, especially the Cumaean Sibyl and the Sibylline Books. | Having oracle-like predicting powers, clairvoyant.
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Notably, from the Cumaean Sibyl (an oracular priestess), he purchased the Sibylline Books, which were believed to contain important prophecies about the future of Rome.
And Sibylline's Justin Crump says that while Russian air defences have evolved to counter the threat of Storm Shadow within Ukraine, this task will be much harder given the scope of Moscow’s territory that could now be exposed to attack.
Sibylline's report also highlights the risk climate change poses to the Middle East, North Africa and Turkey.
Another version of the poem was published in the 1817 collection entitled Sibylline Leaves citation (see 1817 in poetry ).
He is known for many executions, including that of his mother, References to Nero's matricide appear in the Sibylline Oracles 5.490–520, Geoffrey Chaucer 's Canterbury Tales The Monk's Tale and William Shakespeare 's Hamlet 3.ii.
The Sibylline oracle suggested that if the Venus Erycina ("Venus of Eryx "), patron goddess of Carthage's Sicillian allies, could be persuaded to change her allegiance, Carthage might be defeated.
When his colleague Lepidus died, Augustus assumed his office as pontifex maximus, took priestly control over the State oracles (including the Sibylline books ), and used his powers as censor to suppress the circulation of "unapproved" oracles.