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| | Sibyl: sibyl buck, cumaean sibyl, libyan sibyl (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | The second Sibyl, referred to by Pausanias, and named "Herophile", seems to have been based ultimately in Samos, but visited other shrines, Delphi, etc. and sang there, but that at the same time, Delphi had its own sibyl. |
 | | Maass and his work in 1879, that only two of the Greek Sibyls were historical, Herophile of Erythrae, who is thought to have lived in the eighth century BC, and Phyto of Samos who lived somewhat later. |
 | | He goes on to write that the Greeks at first seemed to have known only one Sibyl, and the first ancient writer to distinguish several Sibyls was Heraclides Ponticus, in the fourth century BC, in his book On Oracles, wherein he names at least three Sibyls, the Phrygian, the Erythraen, and the Hellespontine. |
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