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    "Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis

     vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent:

     Σιβυλλα τι θελεις; respondebat illa:αποθανειν θελω.”


    "For on one occasion I myself saw, with my own eyes, the Cumaean Sibyl 

     hanging in a cage, and when some boys said to her:

    'Sibyl, what do you want?' she replied, 'I want to die.' "






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