semainomena].

[1713] Originally diviners from the flight of birds, but the
area of their divinatory functions was gradually extended.
See Wissowa, _Religion der Roemer_, p. 450 ff.; Fowler,
_Religious Experience of the Roman People_, lecture xiii.

[1714] Charged with the interpretation of the entrails of
sacrificed animals, and also of lightning and portents.

[1715] Wissowa, op. cit., p. 474.

[1716] Cf. above, Sec. 895 f.

[1717] This story (connected with Thebes) appears to
represent some sort of protest against the Dionysiac cult
when it was first brought to Greece; cf. Roscher, _Lexikon_,
article "Pentheus."

[1718] Cf. above, Sec. 927.

[1719] 1 Sam. xix, 24; cf. Mic. i, 8 ff.

[1720] Their "visions" sometimes show literary art (Ezek. xl
ff.; Zech. i-viii).

[1721] Roscher, _Lexikon_, article "Sibylla."

[1722] That is, she was not to be tolerated as a rival of
the great oracular god.

[1723] Cf. Wissowa, _Religion der Roemer_, pp. 239, 462 ff.

[1724] Bouche-Leclercq, _Histoire de la divination dans
l'antiquite_, ii, Index, s.v. _Cumes_.

[1725] Wissowa, _Religion der Roemer_, p. 463; Fowler,
_Religious Experience of the Roman People_, p. 339.

[1726] Augustine, _De Civitate Dei_, x, 27 (in connection
with Vergil's verses, _Eclogues_, iv, 13 f.); xxviii, 23
(the initial letters in _Sibylline Oracles_, viii, 268-309,
giving a title of Christ). So Eusebius, in his report of the
Oration of Constantine, xviii; cf. Lactantius, _Divinae
Institutiones_, lib. i, cap. vi.

[1727] _Oracula Sibyllina_, ed. Alexandre (Greek text, with
Latin tr.); ed. Friedlieb (Greek text, with German tr. and
additions by Volkmann); ed. Rzack (critical Greek text);
Terry, _The Sibylline Oracles_ (Eng. tr., blank verse).

[1728] On the attitude of early Greek philosophers
(Pythagoras, Democritus, Empedocles, Thales, Xenophanes)
toward divination, and the relation of the latter to the
idea of divine providence, see Bouche-Leclercq, _Histoire de
la divination dans l'antiquite_, i, 29 ff.

[1729] See Chapter iii.

[1730] Cf. Barton, _Semitic Origins_, chap. i.

[1731] Cf. Breasted, _Religion and Thought in Ancient
Egypt_.

[1732] Fowler, _Religious Experience of the Roman People_,
chaps. i, xvi.

[1733] Bertrand, _La religion des Gaulois_; Rhys, _Celtic
Heathendom_; Usener, _Goetternamen_; articles "Celts" and
"Aryan