Devon & Cornwall notes & queries . hair, and over the ears wears large gold discs from which aveil depends; a dull orange overdress, and a bluish-whiteunder-garment; carries a cross and a budding rod. Sheprophesied the Incarnation (symbolised by the budding rod),the Passion and the Crucifixion. 5. Sibylla Tibuvtina. (From Tivoli. Venerated in thattown as the White Goddess). She wears a dull blue dresswith epaulets of a curious shape—one of which at first sightwrongly suggests the head of a halberd; scarlet sleeves;carries the pillar of flagellation. She foretold the mockingand scourging of our
Devon & Cornwall notes & queries . hair, and over the ears wears large gold discs from which aveil depends; a dull orange overdress, and a bluish-whiteunder-garment; carries a cross and a budding rod. Sheprophesied the Incarnation (symbolised by the budding rod),the Passion and the Crucifixion. 5. Sibylla Tibuvtina. (From Tivoli. Venerated in thattown as the White Goddess). She wears a dull blue dresswith epaulets of a curious shape—one of which at first sightwrongly suggests the head of a halberd; scarlet sleeves;carries the pillar of flagellation. She foretold the mockingand scourging of our Lord, His Death, Resurrection, Mani-festation and Ascension.* This sibyl was the one consultedby Augustus, as mentioned above. 6. Sibylla Cumea or Cimavia. (From Cimaro, a town ofCampania in Italy). Wears a green and gold turban, thehair at the sides of the face in an ornamental net. Orangedress embroidered in green, the sleeves and underskirt of the *At Bradninch, Tiburtina holds a detached hand with reference tothe Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 141 same tint of orange, but unembroidered. Carries three nails,and prophesied the Crucifixion. Reference has already been made to a passage in thefourth eclogue of Virgil which he professes to have derivedfrom the verses of the Cumean sibyl predicting the birth of achild through whom the iron age would cease and the goldenage return. This was probably the^son of his friend AsiniusPollis, who* had been instrumental in making peace betweenAntony and Octavinnus at the treaty of Brundusium, whichit was hoped would deliver Italy from misfortunes caused bycivil broils, but in the Middle Ages this passage was taken asa prophecy of Christ. It was extremely well known, allscholars read Virgil, and his great fame contributed more thananything else to keep the sibyls in the public view. Many writers have thought that the sibyl who inspiredVirgil was Cumana, and the confusion is natural as the namesare much alike. The media
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