Epilogue


‘I saw the Sibyl at Cumae’

(One said) ‘with mine own eye.

She hung in a cage, and read her rune

To all the passers-by

Said the boys, “What wouldst thou, Sibyl?”

She answered, “I would die.”’

(Petronius: ‘Satyricon’, translated by

Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

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