A CAVE IN OLD GREECE.
Diggers have been at work at Cumae, by the sea, not far from Rome, where, among many caves, is the cave in which, according to tradition, dwelt the Sibyl. This was the wise woman who Virgil tells us was consulted by Aeneas before he made his journey in the Underworld. There was a Greek settlement at Cumae long before the foundation of Rome so that there may well have been a hermit in these eaves' in the very earliest times. V irgil speaks of a cavern of many mouths, “from which rush as many voices, the answers of the Sibyl.” Now a new mouth has been found, approaching from the sea. and it is believed to be the main entrance which people used when they came to consult the Oracle.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19760, 10 April 1926, Page 13
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135A CAVE IN OLD GREECE. Otago Daily Times, Issue 19760, 10 April 1926, Page 13
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