This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...To these are added two, which are Europa and Egypcia, of whom writes Bernardino de Busto, and other ancient and modern writers. These twelve the Author gives a portrait of, and each are true illustrations of the Sibyls with their individual devices, according to the nature of their prophecies. Marcianus Capel. ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...To these are added two, which are Europa and Egypcia, of whom writes Bernardino de Busto, and other ancient and modern writers. These twelve the Author gives a portrait of, and each are true illustrations of the Sibyls with their individual devices, according to the nature of their prophecies. Marcianus Capel. t PHn. lib. 34, c. 5. t Elia. var. histor. Lacta. lib. 5, c. 6, de fal. relig. Besides these twelve already stated there are others mentioned, such as Mantho, Daphne, daughter of Tirresias, from whose writings it is said Homer robbed a great part of his marvellous poem; Casandra Xenoclea, Melisa, and Lampusa; and Strabo t in his Geography adds many others; but of all these none are taken notice of but the twelve mentioned who bore the distinctive appellation of Sibyls, because in them was perceived the gift of virginity for which cause was imparted to them the gift of prophecy, as is told us by St Jerome, and Constantine the Great, ! in his Orations on the Christian Religion, quoted by Eusebius in his life. D. Hier. lib. i, advers. Jovini. D. Augus. de civ. Dei, li. 18, cap. 23, et de Trinit. lib. 19. t Strab. lib. 4, Geograf. D. Hier. cont. Jovinian, And although some Saints say that the Devil spoke through these Sibyls, as we can infer by St Augustine and St Ambrose in various parts of their works and in the Glossary, I reply that it is true that the Devils frequently spoke through the Sibyls, and by the mouths of their own prophets, but in all that relates to the mysteries of our Redemption, the Sibyls spoke by Divine Revelation, God making use of the bad for the benefit of the good, as St Thomas t writes in the Secunda Secunda. The Saints also experienced evil from many women deceived by the Devil, to whom were falsely ascribed...
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