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==Epigraph==

''"Nam Sibyllam quiden Cumis ego ipse oculis meis''

''vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent''

''Σιβυλλα τι θελεις; respondebat illa:αποθανειν θελω."''


   
== Translation ==

    '''"Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis'''
    "For on one occasion I myself saw, with my own eyes, the Cumaean Sibyl 
     
     '''vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent:'''
     hanging in a cage, and when some boys said to her:
     
     '''Σιβυλλα τι θελεις; respondebat illa:αποθανειν θελω.”'''
     'Sibyl, what do you want?' she replied, 'I want to die.' "






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