Sibylline Books

1. Caesar Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

   chapter 60

   The Sibylline books are explicitly cited as an authoritative source legitimizing the proposal to make Caesar king.

   And yet those who were advocating this honour for Caesar actually spread abroad among the people a report that from the Sibylline books it appeared that Parthia could be taken if the Romans went up against it with a king, but otherwise could not be assailed;

2. Cicero Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

   chapter 17

   False prophets invoke forged verses attributed to the Sibylline books as an authoritative prophecy to persuade Lentulus that supreme power was destined for him.

   These recited forged oracles in verse purporting to come from the Sibylline books, which set forth that three Cornelii were fated to be monarchs in Rome, two of whom had already fulfilled their destiny, namely, Cinna and Sulla, and that now to him, the third and remaining Cornelius, the heavenly powers were come with a proffer of the monarchy, which he must by all means accept, and not ruin his op …

3. Fabius Maximus Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

   chapter 4

   The Sibylline books are consulted as a source of legitimate oracular guidance during the crisis, treated as a genuine authority.

   At this time, moreover, many of the so-called Sibylline books, containing secrets of service to the state, were consulted, and it is said that some of the oracular sayings therein preserved corresponded with the fortunes and events of the time.

4. Marcellus Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

   chapter 3

   The Sibylline books' oracular commands are obeyed by the Romans as binding religious authority.

   For though they have no barbarous or unnatural practices, but cherish towards their deities those mild and reverent sentiments which especially characterize Greek thought, at the time when this war burst upon them they were constrained to obey certain oracular commands from the Sibylline books, and to bury alive two Greeks, a man and a woman, and likewise two Gauls, in the place called the forum b …

5. Publicola Plutarch 1 authority 1 citation

   chapter 21

   Publicola acts by direction of the Sibylline books, treating them as the authoritative source for the appropriate religious response to the prodigies.

   Wherefore by direction of the Sibylline books, Publicola made propitiatory sacrifices to Pluto, and renewed certain games that had been recommended by Apollo, and after he had thus made the city more cheerful in its mopes and expectations from the gods, he turned his attention to what it feared from men.

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