Sibyl

• “The derivation and meaning of the name Sibyl are still subjects of controversy among antiquarians.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock

• “A woman whom they called Sibyl, gifted with divine inspiration, came to Rome bringing [Sidenote: FRAG.”

  Dio's Rome, Volume 1 (of 6) An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek during the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form

• “They were supposedly made by a PROPHETESS called Sibyl, and eventually gathered together in Rome where they were consulted in times of crisis, until their destruction in 405.”

  Concise Dictionary of Religion

• “It may be that the so-called Sibyl had caught something of the same hope which led the Magi of the East to the cradle of the infant Messiah, but in any case the eclogue voiced a vague expectation which prevailed throughout the Roman Empire.”

  Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891

• “I call you my Sibyl, dearest, because the Sibyl was a prophetess of divine things out of the Church; and so are you.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 04, No. 26, December, 1859

• “Standing as the heirs of all the ages on this elevated vantage-ground and looking back upon the long course of the centuries -- upon the eventful future of the Sibyl, which is the past to us -- it seems a matter of course that the world should have spun down the ringing grooves of change as it has done; and we fancy that this must have been obvious to the world's gray fathers.”

  Roman Mosaics Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood

• “Humph! I'm afraid the Sibyl is the only person capable of interpreting these.”

  The Dramatic Values in Plautus

• “The family name is unknown of this great seeress and prophetess, called the Sibyl of the Rhine.”

  The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability

• “We have an aristocracy of language, whose phrases, like the West-End men of "Sibyl," are effeminate, extravagant, conventional, and prematurely worn-out.”

  The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 06, No. 38, December, 1860

• “Her form, small and wonderfully graceful, was outlined against the back of the chair like the "Sibyl" of Velasquez.”

  Rose Orchid

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