sibyl

Definizione monolingua

sibyl

sibyl (plural sibyls)

1. A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl.
   • 1603, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Othello: Act III, Scene IV:

     A sibyl, that had numberd in the world

     The sun to course two hundred compasses,

     In her prophetic fury sewd the work;

   • 1922 T. S. Eliot, The Wasteland: Epigraph (translated from 61 Petronius The Satyricon: Chapter 8, Lines 80 -86)

     I used to read these tales in Homer when I was a lad. Then the Sibyl! I saw her at Cumae with my own eyes hanging in a jar; and when the boys cried to her, ‘Sibyl, what would you? shed answer, ‘I would die,-- both of ‘em speaking Greek.""

Definizione dizionario sibyl

	sibilla
	a pagan female oracle

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Altri significati:

A pagan female oracle or prophetess, especially the Cumaean sibyl.