Its sibyllic splendor is beaming With hope and in beauty to-night: 65 See, it flickers up the sky through the night!
"Selections From Poe"
J. Montgomery Gambrill
The Sibyls are simply beautiful women of antique form, to whom, with the aid of books, scrolls, and inscriptions, the sibyllic idea has been given, but who would equally pass for the abstract personifications of virtues or cities.
"Walks in Rome"
Augustus J.C. Hare