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‖ Sibylla|sɪˈbɪlə|
Also 4 sibila, 6–7 sibilla; 4 sybila, 6–7 sybilla.
[a. L. Sibylla: see prec.]
= Sibyl 1.
a1300Cursor M. 7031 Þan ras þe thrid sibila, þat man clepis delphica. 1513Douglas æneid vi. i. 99 Gevand respons onto this Sibilla. 1596Shakes. Merch. V. i. ii. 116 If I liue to be as olde as Sibilla, I will dye as chaste as Diana. 1611Cotgr., Sibyllin, prophecying, of a Sybilla, or Sybilla-like. 1842Smith's Dict. Gr. & Rom. Antiq. s.v. Divinatio, The Sibylla whose books gained so great an importance at Rome, was, according to Varro, the Erythraean. Ibid., Prophecies by some Bacis or Sibylla. |