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TENTH SIBYL

SIBILLA SAMIA

As this Sibyl was a native of the Island of Samos, some have called her Heriphila. She lived in the time of Numa Pompilius, about the year 3294. He has this prophecy of

hers:

"Ecce veniet dives et nascetur de paupercula, et bestiæ terrarum adorabunt eum, et dicent: laudate eum in atriis cœlorum."

This Sibyl also said that the Lord would be crowned with thorns, and that He would have given to Him gall and vinegar to drink. Το this one is also attributed that verse of the Holy Cross, which says: "O lignum felix in quo Deus ipse pependit."

She is described as of a beautiful countenance, with a fine veil on her head, in one hand a crown of thorns, and in the other an open book containing her prophecies.

Of this oracle and verse of the Holy Cross there is mention made in the works of Sozomeno, Suydas, Nicephorus, and others.

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