Talk:Tiburtine Sibyl

File:Antonio da Trento - The Tiburtine sibyl and the Emperor Augustus.jpg to appear as POTD soon

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Picture of the day

A 16th-century chiaroscuro woodcut of the Tiburtine Sibyl meeting with Augustus. The mythic meeting between the Roman Emperor and the sibyl (prophetess) of Tibur (now Tivoli), of whom he inquired whether he should be worshiped as a god, was a favored motif of Christian artists. In this scene, she shows him a vision of the Christian heaven.Artist: Antonio da Trento; Restoration: Adam Cuerden

Cæsar Augustus worshipped as a god

So what was the sibyl's response when Cæsar Augustus asked whether he should be worshiped as a god? —Pie4all88 ^{T C} 17:41, 15 November 2011 (UTC)

Speeding up time

I think it's important to provide the whole whole quote verbatim. This shows a very strange phenomenon: the speeding up of time. Here's the actual quote:

"He will delude many by magic art so that fire will seem to come down from heaven. The years will be shortened like months, the months like weeks, the weeks like days, the days like hours, and an hour like a moment. The unclean nations that Alexander, the Indian king, shut up will arise from the North. These are the 22 realms whose number is like the sand of the sea. When the king of the Romans hears of this he will call his army together and vanquish and utterly destroy them. After this he will come to Jerusalem, and having put off the diadem from his head and laid aside the whole imperial garb, he will hand over the empire of the Christians to God the Father and to Jesus Christ His Son. When the Roman Empire..." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8801:9900:DE70:84C5:CC97:D370:1CD1 (talk) 18:46, 10 January 2018 (UTC)