The Sibylline Oracles
Milton S. Terry
Milton S. Terry's blank verse translation of the Sibylline Oracles, the prophetic books credited to the ancient Sibyls. Includes the surviving fragments and the accounts of the Sibyls by Lactantius and Justin Martyr.
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