Sibylline

With this view, the secret prophecies called the Sibylline Books were consulted; sundry predictions found in them were said to refer to the fortunes and events of the time; but none except the consulter was informed.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

There was also a tributary stream from the so-called Sibylline writings.

Dictionary of the History of Ideas GORDON LEFF 1968

State worship under the directions of the so-called Sibylline books.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

The so-called Sibylline books and their keepers were responsible, as we shall see directly, for the introduction at Rome of what was known as the _Graecus ritus_, -- for the foundation of temples to deities of Greek origin, and for other rites which initiated an entirely new type of religious feeling.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

His interest continued as the Internet became popular, and he created a number of Web sites, including one for his neighborhood association and an online bookstore called Sibylline Books.

SFGate: Top News Stories Marisa Lagos 2010

"Sibylline" connects it with numerous popular uses of the figure of the Sybil, including Samuel Coleridge's 1817 collection of poetry and the writing of Mme. de Staël; and it in turn may have contributed to the continuing popularity of things

Note: sibylline pages 2002

I have purposely used vague terms, such as Sibylline _influence_, instead of speaking in the old manner of Sibylline _books_ or oracles, because it is almost incredible that at so early a date it could have been possible to divulge any contents of a store of writings such as must have been most carefully treasured and concealed.

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Even the so-called Sibylline oracles, as we saw, were not prophecies; and the augural art never provided an answer to the question, "What is going to happen?" but only to that much more religious one, "Are the deities willing that we should do this or that?" [

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884

Wolff may indeed have been his mistress, and her stunning silvery portrait – the most Sibylline he ever painted – conveniently took Lawrence 15 years to complete.

Thomas Lawrence: The new romantic – review Richard Holmes 2010

The next thing was to seek means of propitiating the gods, and recourse was had to the Sibylline books, by the direction of which prayers were offered to Vulcanus, Ceres, and Proserpina.

Tacitus on Mythicism James F. McGrath 2010