31. Augustus installed the Sibylline books in a special golden storage case under the statue of Apollo in the Temple of Apollo Palatinus. 32. The Senate refused to ransom Hannibal's Roman captives : instead, they consulted the Sibylline books, then made drastic preparations: 33. Such celebrations must be distinguished from those which were ordered, like the earlier lectisternia, by the Sibylline Books in special emergencies. 34. The senate consulted the Sibylline Books at the suggestion of Fabius and a praetor was assigned to appease the Roman gods through generous sacrifices. 35. In 1545 Betuleius published at Basel an edition of eight books of the Sibylline oracles with a preface dating from perhaps the sixth century. 36. In 4 Ezra, 2 Baruch and the Sibylline oracles, " Babylon " is a Rome as a woman sitting on seven hills. 37. In the room dedicated to his work everything is designed to look like an Chlorophylle and Sibylline 's underground home in the forest. 38. And where else can you see Marian Seldes, as a seeress with a voice from the crypt, sending up her own sibylline persona? 39. In 405, according to Rutilius Namatianus, " De Reditu " 51 60, Stilicho ordered the destruction of the Sibylline Books. 40. The term does occasionally, however, denote " an eschatological event, " such as in the Assumption of Moses and the Sibylline Oracles.
