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    sibylline


    1. Much godly immigration was the result of the Sibylline Books, a collection of Greek oracles, or divine advice, that came to be consulted by priests at the influential Capitoline temple for important decisions


    2. They had a very special feeling of reverence for it—something of the feeling which an ancient Roman might have for the Sibylline books in the Capitol


    3. The cabarets of the Faubourg Saint-Antoine resemble those taverns of Mont Aventine erected on the cave of the Sibyl and communicating with the profound and sacred breath; taverns where the tables were almost tripods, and where was drunk what Ennius calls the sibylline wine


    4. She had to sell her father’s house because she could not bear the pain of her adolescence, the view of the desolate little park from the balcony, the sibylline fragrance of gardenias on hot nights, the frightening face of an old lady on the February afternoon when her fate was decided, and regardless of where she turned her memory of those times, she would find herself face to face with Florentino Ariza


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    Synonyms for "sibylline"

    cabalistic cryptic cryptical kabbalistic qabalistic sibylline divinatory mantic sibyllic vatic vatical

    "sibylline" definitions

    resembling or characteristic of a prophet or prophecy


    having a secret or hidden meaning