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376 APPENDIX Abhandlung iiber Entstehung, etc.,der Sibyllinischen Biicher (1858) ; L. Friedlander, La Sibylle Juive, Rev. des Etudes Juives, 29, p. 183 (1894) ; Boissier, La Fin du Paganisrae (2d Ed., 1894); Rzach, Kritische Studien zu den Sibyllin- ischen Orakeln, Denkschriften der Wiener Akad., Phil.-Hist. Classe, Vol. 38, 1890; Rzach, Metrischen Studien zu den Sibyllinischen Orakeln, Sitzungsberichte Wiener Akad., Phil.-Hist. Classe, Vol. 126 (1891). Vol. II of Alexandre's first edition (1856) of Oracula Sibyllina is made up of VII Excursus with appendices. Ex. I on the Sibyls, and App. ad Ex. I, give the principal classical and late classical citations, e.g., Varro apud Lactan- tium. Lib. I, Cap. 6, which mentions 10 Sibyls, — de Persis, Libyssam, Delphida, Cimmefiam, Erythraeam, Samiam, Cu- manam, Hellespontiam, Phrygiara, Tiburtem (accusatives). Ex. II De Sib. Carm. apud Graecos veteres. Ex. Ill is the history of the old Sibylline books till their destruction by order of Stilicho under Honorius. Ex. IV De Sib. carminibus apud veteres Christianos, showing the many references to the Sibyl in the Fathers, e.g., Justin, Clement of Alexandria, Lactantius ; cf. Aug. Civ. Dei. XVIII, 23 (p. 283 of Ex.), who distrusted their authen- ticity. Appendix ad Ex. IV is " De medii aevi Sibyllinis " ; references by Luitprand (10 Cent.), Bede (follows Lactan- tius), Bedae Opera, Tom. 2, and others; also in Bernard's hymn for Christmas day : — Si non suis votibus Credat vel gentilibus Sibyllinis versibus Haec praedicta. and in the Dies Irae, dies ilia Solvet saeclum in favilla, Teste David cum Sibylla.