The Sibyl then burned three more books and again offered Tarquin the three remaining Sibylline Books at the original price.

* Stilicho, Roman general ( magister militum ), orders the Sibylline Books to be burned, according to the Roman poet Rutilius Claudius Namatianus.

An account written by Aurelius Victor states, Claudius consulted the Sibylline Books prior to his campaigns against the Goths.

* A fire breaks out which burns down the Temple of Jupiter ( Jupiter Capitolinus ) and destroys the collection of Sibylline Books.

The Aventine Triad was apparently installed at the behest of the Sibylline Books but Liber's position within it seems equivocal from the outset.

In 405, according to Rutilius Namatianus, De Reditu 51 – 60, Stilicho ordered the destruction of the Sibylline Books.

A temple on the Capitoline Hill in Rome was vowed to Mens in 217 BC on advice from the Sibylline Books, and was dedicated in 215 BC.

* The Hellespontine Sibyl's Sibylline Books

: Main articles: Sibylline Books and Sibylline Oracles.

The Sibylline Books are not the same as the Sibylline Oracles.

The Roman Sibylline Books were quite different in character from the preserved Sibylline Oracles, which typically predict disasters rather than prescribe solutions.

The oldest collection of written Sibylline Books appears to have been made about the time of Solon and Cyrus at Gergis on Mount Ida in the Troad.

For the books, see Sibylline Books.

These are not considered to be identical to the original Sibylline Books of Roman mythology, which have been lost, but a collection of utterances that were composed or edited under various circumstances, between perhaps the middle of the 2nd century BC and the 5th century AD.

Some have suggested that the surviving texts may include some fragments or remnants of the Sibylline Books with a legendary provenance from the Cumaean Sibyl, which had been kept in temples in Rome.

* The Sibylline oracles, Books III-V, Translated by the Rev.

In 51 BCE he stood for election to the prestigious priestly board of fifteen men in charge of the Sibylline Books (< i > Quindecimviri sacris faciundis </ i >), but was defeated by Publius Cornelius Dolabella ( to the amusement of Cicero's correspondent, Marcus Caelius RufusM.

" Fraternis " focuses on alleged lost records of ancient wisdom ; a mysterious, legendary collection of writings, traces of which he says can be found under various names like " The Sibylline Books ", " Corpus Hermetica " or " The Lost Books of Phoenicians ".

The Sibylline Books or Libri Sibyllini were a collection of oracular utterances, set out in Greek hexameters, purchased from a sibyl by the last king of Rome, Tarquinius Superbus, and consulted at momentous crises through the history of the Republic and the Empire.

The Sibylline Books should not be confused with the so-called Sibylline Oracles, twelve books of prophecies thought to be of Judaeo-Christian origin.

They were first appointed in 367 BC in lieu of the patrician duumviri (" Two Men ") who had had responsibility for the care and consultation of the Sibylline books and the celebration of the games of Apollo.

On the charge of maiestas ( high treason ) incurred by having left his province for Egypt without the consent of the senate and in defiance of the Sibylline books, he was acquitted ; it is said that the judges were bribed, and even Cicero, an enemy of Gabinius, was persuaded by Pompey to say as little as he could.

Theophilus regards the Sibylline books that were still in Rome as authentic and inspired productions, quoting the Sibylline oracles ( scholars dispute that these are the same ) largely as declaring the same truths with the prophets.

The oldest of the surviving Sibylline oracles seem to be books 3-5, which were composed partly by Jews in Alexandria.

The sibyls themselves, and the so-called Sibylline oracles, were often referred to by other early Church fathers ; Theophilus, Bishop of Antioch ( ca.

The Roman Senate kept tight control over the Sibylline Books ; Sibylline Books were entrusted to the care of two patricians ; after 367 BC ten custodians were appointed, five patricians and five plebeians, who were called the decemviri sacris faciundis ; subsequently ( probably in the time of Sulla ) their number was increased to fifteen, the quindecimviri sacris faciundis.

It was only the rites of expiation prescribed by the Sibylline Books, according to the interpretation of the oracle that were communicated to the public, and not the oracles themselves, which left ample opportunity for abuses.

The Sibylline Oracles were quoted by the Roman-Jewish historian Josephus ( late 1st century ) as well as by numerous Christian writers of the second century, including Athenagoras of Athens who, in a letter addressed to Marcus Aurelius in ca.

Copies of the actual Sibylline Books ( as reconstituted in 76 BC ) were still in the Roman Temple at this time.

* 405: Stilicho ordered the destruction of the Sibylline Books, possibly because Sibylline prophecies were being used to attack his government in the face of the attack of Alaric I.

Also lost in this fire were the Sibylline Books, which were said to have been written by classical sibyls, and stored in the temple ( to be guarded and consulted by the quindecimviri ( council of fifteen ) on matters of state only on emergencies ).

According to Varro, an antiquarian of the 1st century BC, the Games were introduced after a series of portents led to a consultation of the Sibylline Books by the quindecimviri.

According to the Roman tradition, the oldest collection of Sibylline books appears to have been made about the time of Solon and Cyrus at Gergis on Mount Ida in the Troad ; it was attributed to the Hellespontine Sibyl and was preserved in the temple of Apollo at Gergis.

This new Sibylline collection was deposited in the restored temple, together with similar sayings of native origin, e. g. those of the Sibyl at Tibur ( the ' Tiburtine Sibyl ') of the brothers Marcius, and others.

The festival was first instituted in 240 B. C. E but on the advice of the Sibylline books she was given another temple in 238 B. C. E.

Verse 22 marks a sudden and remarkable shift in New Jerusalem apocalyptic rhetoric: “ I saw no temple in the city, for its temple is the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb .” Following with the tradition of 3 Baruch and 4 Sibylline Oracles, Revelation foresees an eschaton without the Temple.

The oldest collection of Sibylline utterances, the Sibylline books, appears to have been made about the time of Cyrus at Gergis on Mount Ida ; it was attributed to the Hellespontine Sibyl and was preserved in the temple of Apollo at Gergis.

Around the middle of the 2nd century BC, the Sibylline Oracles mention the " land of Gog and Magog " as " situated in the midst of Aethiopian rivers ", but in a second mention links it with the " Marsians and Dacians ", in eastern Europe ; in both cases they are about to receive " woe ," and according to Boe, " there can be little doubt about the direct use of Ezekiel's oracles " in their composition.

The Sibylline Oracles in their existing form are a chaotic medley.

Thus, one important effect of the Sibylline Books was their influence on applying Greek cult practice and Greek conceptions of deities to indigenous Roman religion, which was already indirectly influenced through Etruscan religion.

The Oracles are nevertheless thought by modern scholars to be anonymous compilations that assumed their final form in the fifth century, after the Sibylline Books perished.