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... Sibyl would not let Aeneas read on . She peremptorily told him that he should not waste time , but sacrifice bulls and sheep . This he did . It is as if the Sibyl had told him not to rely on his own personal explorations and conjec ...
... Sibyl would not let Aeneas read on . She peremptorily told him that he should not waste time , but sacrifice bulls and sheep . This he did . It is as if the Sibyl had told him not to rely on his own personal explorations and conjec ...
Page 167
... sibyl ' of raving lips'.11 Ancient mediums , Greek , Roman and Chinese also , and some modern oriental mediums , apparently made and make very heavy weather of going into a trance : modern , western , mediums go off into a trance quite ...
... sibyl ' of raving lips'.11 Ancient mediums , Greek , Roman and Chinese also , and some modern oriental mediums , apparently made and make very heavy weather of going into a trance : modern , western , mediums go off into a trance quite ...
Page 168
... Sibyl shows him the Golden Bough . He had seen it before — we have no idea when , certainly not for a long time — and he accepted it as a pass- port . They crossed ; and eventually dedicated the bough , hanging it up in a kind of ...
... Sibyl shows him the Golden Bough . He had seen it before — we have no idea when , certainly not for a long time — and he accepted it as a pass- port . They crossed ; and eventually dedicated the bough , hanging it up in a kind of ...
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The Originality of the Aeneid | 27 |
Virgil and the Flavian Epic | 67 |
Virgil into Dante | 94 |
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