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Sibylline Books in British English
a number of oracular manuscripts consulted regularly by the ancient Romans and thought to have been written by the sibyl of Cumae
plural noun: (in ancient Rome) a collection of prophetic sayings, supposedly bought from the Cumaean sibyl, bearing upon Roman policy and religion

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