 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1807 - 636 pages
...Superbus, wishing to sell nine books of Sibylline, or phophetic oracles. But upon Tarquin's refufal to give her the price which she asked, she went away,...and burnt three of them. Returning soon after, she sought the same price for the remaining six. Whereupon being ridiculed by the king, as a senseless... | |
 | Marcus Tullius Cicero - 1811 - 358 pages
...sell nine books of Sibylline or prophetick oracles. Being refused the price, which she asked for them, she went away and burnt three of them. Returning soon after, she sought the same price for the remaining six. Refused again, she went and burnt other three, and coming... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1819 - 572 pages
...Tarquiu's refusal to give her the price which she asked, she wont away, and burnt three of them. R< turning soon after, she demanded the same price for the remaining...senseless old woman, she went and burnt other three; and coining back, still demanded the same price tor the three winch remained. Gellius says that the books... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1819 - 602 pages
...Tarquinius Superbus, wishing to sell nine books of Sibylline, or prophetic oracles. But upon Tarquin's refusal to give her the price which she asked, she...and burnt three of them. Returning soon after, she sought the same price for the remaining six. Whereupon T 4 being being ridiculed by the king, as a... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Archaeology - 1819 - 598 pages
...Tarquinius Superbus, wishing to sell nine books of Sibylline, or prophetic oracles. But upon Tarquin's refusal to give her the price which she asked, she...and burnt three of them. Returning soon after, she sought the same price for the remaining six. Whereupon being ridiculed by the king, as a senseless... | |
 | C. Irving - Great Britain - 1822 - 304 pages
...which she said were the oracles of the Sibyls, and offered to sell them ; but upon Tarquinius refusing to give her the price which she asked, she went away, and burnt three of them, and returning with the six, asked the same price as before : being ridiculed by the king, she went... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Rome - 1826 - 510 pages
...Tarquinius Superbus, wishing to sell nine books of Sibylline, or prophetic oracles. But upon Tarquin's refusal to give her the price which she asked, she...after, she demanded the same price for the remaining sis. Whereupon being ridiculed by the king, as a senseless old woman, she went and burnt other three... | |
 | Charles Knapp Dillaway - Mythology, Classical - 1831 - 192 pages
...sell nine books of sibylline or prophetic oracles : but upon Tarquin's refusal to give her the price she asked, she went away and burnt three of them. Returning soon after, she asked the same price for the remaining six : whereupon, being ridiculed by the king, she went and burnt... | |
 | Alexander Adam - Classical antiquities - 1835 - 604 pages
...Tarquinius Superbus, wishing to sell nine books of Sibylline or prophetic oracles. But upon Tarquin's refusal to give her the price which she asked, she...and burnt three of them. Returning soon after, she sought the same price for the remaining six. Whereupon, being ridiculed by the king as a senseless... | |
 | Alexander Adam - 1835 - 570 pages
...Tarquinius Superbus, wishing to sell nine books of Sibylline or prophetic oracles. But upon Tarquin's refusal to give her the price which she asked, she went away, and burned three of them. Returning soon after, she sought the same price for the remaining six. Whereupon,... | |
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Returning soon after, she sought the same price for the remaining six. Whereupon being ridiculed by the king, as a senseless old woman? she went and burnt other three ; and coming back still demanded the same price for the three which remained. 
