[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, § 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, § 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 Römer, pp. 239, 462 ff.