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After the burning of the Capitol, the sibyl-u line Verfes were brought from Santos, Ilium, £rythris, Afrjm, Sicily, Italy: There Books, tiny, fays, were burnt in Sylln's time (i, e. 8 3 ears before Chrilt); after the new colle (brion they remaoin'd at Rome, till the time of Honorius' and Theodofiwjnnior, and then Sti lieo being about to unit a.sedition, burnt, 'em. The Kansans brought 1 000 of there Verfes to Range, after rebuilding the Capitol. Suetonius givesthis account,that Angujius burnt nooo prophefies, whofe Authority was uncertain, At [alas retinuit Sibyllinosj, bafq; de leélu habito. Lnllantius quotes thol'e Verl'es which te-v te to one'god', and they are the fame as we now read in' the Sibylline Books they were common to all Men 3 and there were the Verl'es of the Erythrean Sibyl; none were conceal'd by the Romans but thofe of the Cu yuan Sibyl The reafon of keeping thefe from the Vulgar was,the Gumtan Sybil fore.
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