The Student's Mythology A Compendium of Greek, Roman, Egyptian, Assyrian, Persian, Hindoo, Chinese, Thibetian, Scandinavian, Celtic, Aztec, and Peruvian Mythologies

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

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Sibyls--Story of the Cumæan Sibyl--Legend of the Sibylline Books--Their destruction--Opinions entertained regarding these Verses--Divination by Omens--The Augurs--Different Classes of Omens--Anecdote 176