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Origin of the name SIBYL.
Etymology of the name SIBYL.
Meaning of the baby name SIBYL.
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SIBYL (Σίβύλ). Greek
form of Italian Sibulla
(q.v.), meaning "a wise old woman," i.e. "a prophetess."
Cornish Sibilley. French Sibille.
Usage: America, Australia, England,
France, Germany, Greece, Wales.
Sibyl Enid Vera Munro Morrison (d. 1961),
was the first female barrister in New South Wales, Australia. Sibyl Moholy-Nagy (d. 1971), was the daughter of
the Werkbund architect Martin Pietzsch. Sibyl Buck, an American musician
and former fashion model. (Wiki)
... the Cumean Sibyl, who
guided Æneas to the infernal regions, was said to be the same who
brought the prophetic books for sale to Tarquinius Priscus, and on each
refusal of the sum that she demanded for them, carried them off,
destroyed one, and brought the rest back rated at a higher price.
The single remaining roll bought by the king was said to contain all the
mysterious prophecies that were afterwards verified by the course of
events, and above all, that prediction of the coming rule of peace,
which Virgil, following Theocritus, embodied in his eclogue as fulfilled
in Augustus. That eclogue, flattery though it were, won for Virgil
his semi-Christian fame, and caused the learned men of Italy to erect
the Sibyls into the personifications of heathen presages of Gospel
truth—"Teste David cum Sibylla,"—as says the glorious hymn
uniting the voices of Hebrew and Gentile prophecy; and in this character
do Michel Angelo's magnificent Sibyls adorn the Sistine Chapel; though
later painters, such as Guido and Domenichino, made them more models of
female intellectual beauty... (History of Christian Names, Yonge,
1884)
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