. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . The Cave of the Sibyl of Cumae. to tlieir favourite oracde, and, in ordtr to eomiilete the pictureof the tyranny of Tarquin, they took a pleasure iu showing thenephew of the king, eonstrained to conceal his deep mind imderthe appearance of madness, as he had concealed a golden ingotin his ti-av(dling staff in order to offer it to the god. In a play of Attiiis, represented in the time of Caesar, thepoet related that Tarquin. troulded liy a dream, had called hisdiviners about him. I saw in a vi
. History of Rome and the Roman people, from its origin to the establishment of the Christian empire . The Cave of the Sibyl of Cumae. to tlieir favourite oracde, and, in ordtr to eomiilete the pictureof the tyranny of Tarquin, they took a pleasure iu showing thenephew of the king, eonstrained to conceal his deep mind imderthe appearance of madness, as he had concealed a golden ingotin his ti-av(dling staff in order to offer it to the god. In a play of Attiiis, represented in the time of Caesar, thepoet related that Tarquin. troulded liy a dream, had called hisdiviners about him. I saw in a vision, said he, in th(> midstof a flock, two magnificent rams. I sacrificed one, but the other, Taken from an enjrraviiin-of tlie Hibliotlieque Xationale. The mountain, seen to thelio-lil, is the liill on whieli Cum,-© had been built. The summit bore its Acropolis, and grottoeshad been exeavated in it. One of these grottoes, the entrance of which .seen, is supposedto have been the cave -nhere the Sibvlgaie her oracles. (See Vii-gil, Aiii., vi, 41). 46 ro:m]: txpkr the kixgs. dashiiip; ujion
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