The modern writers generally have mentioned her, and we have this prophecy by her.

"Veniet ille, et transibit montes, et colles et latices sylvarum Olympi, regnabit in paupertate, et dominabitur in silencio et egredietur de utero Virginis."

This Sibyl is not the one who married Arterio, king of Crete, nor the daughter of Anthenor who was ravished by Jupiter in the form of a bull, as Ovid untruthfully says, because, as has been already said, the Sibyls were pure, chaste virgins, and the gift of prophecy was communicated to them on account of their gift of virginity. She is depicted looking up to heaven, bearing an olive branch in her hand, her head wrapped with a fine veil, and robed in golden garments.

The language employed by the Sibyl Europa is very similar in style to that of the Spouse in the Canticles. She says: "He will cross the mountains and the hills," and the Spouse says to her beloved: "Ecce iste venit saliens in montibus, transiliens colles."

The Sibyl said that He would reign in poverty, which is in conformity with what the Prophet Zacharias says: "Exulta satis filia Sion," etc.

The Sibyl also predicted that Christ should

be born of a Virgin, which is also conformable with Isaias: "Ecce Virgo concipiet," etc.

Sibylla Europa is generally depicted with an olive branch, to signify that with the coming of Christ would cease the tempest and agitation of Idolatry, and Christ, the fairest Dove, would come announcing peace, as in the time of Noah the Dove had returned carrying an olive branch in its beak to show that the waters of the deluge had subsided. Because Idolatry had been introduced in the world, and the Devil, to confirm the false divinities, found a great success in giving answers through the idols, in order that those who came to consult them should believe that these divinities were the true God. These answers were given in many temples of the idols, and the most remarkable ones were in Dodona, a province of Egypt, where, according to Diodorus Siculus, in the depths of a wooded forest there was a temple dedicated to Jupiter, in which there was an oracle that gave answers. In Delphos there was another temple, close to Mount Parnassus, and this was the most famous of all that were in the world, of which St Fulgentius makes mention, where the Devils gave cautious answers, so that their falsehoods should not be discovered, and thus they spoke