Sibyl

" "This one, behold, is plain to all, unwandering," as the Sibyl says.

Nay, men, mortal-born, cannot stand even over against the rays of the sun," the Sibyl foretold.

They say, at any rate, that at Delphi, near the council-chamber, a certain rock is shown, on which the first Sibyl is said to have sat, who came from Helicon and was reared by the Muses.

" This the prophetic and poetic Sibyl enjoins upon us;

As your teacher I will set before you the prophetess Sibyl, "oracle-singer not of a lying Phoebus, whom vain men called a god, and falsely styled a seer, but of the great God, whom the hands of men did not fashion, like to dumb idols of polished stone.

At once, then, let the prophetess Sibyl first sing for us the song of salvation:

for there is no way I could be marvelled at by you, not even if I should speak truer things than the Sibyl or Bacis;

These same things you will find also the Sibyl prophesying to you, and Bacis, if indeed those two were good oracle-mongers and seers.

somewhat consonant with this, calls upon a third, beyond the two witnesses, the prophetic Sibyl;

For before all literature existed the Sibyl — that Sibyl, I mean, the true prophetess of the true God, from whose name you have clothed the prophets of demons.

Your Sibyls have falsified the name of truth, just as your gods also have.

It changes even now its fashion locally, when a site is damaged, when among the islands there is no longer any Delos, sands made of Samos, and the Sibyl no liar;