would come to pass in the latter times. Accordingly, the Romans hearing of her fame, told all these things to their leader ; he therefore, in accordance with a vote of the Senate, sent ambassadors to her, and inviting her, with great honour caused her to be conducted to Rome. It happened at that time that a hundred Romans of the Senate saw a wonderful dream ; all seeing one and the same vision on the same night. They saw in a vision of the night nine suns shining in heaven, each of which bore a different appearance in its face. The first was brilliant and shining over the whole earth. The second was more brilliant, and larger, being of a remarkable brightness. The third was of a blood-red colour, fiery and terrible, and sufficiently brilliant. The fourth was red with blood, and four lines branched off from it towards the south. The fifth was dark, having doors in it, as in a dark thunder-cloud. The sixth was dark, and had a sting in it like the tail of a scorpion. The seventh was dark, terrible, an4 of the colour of blood, having a stained sword in it. The eighth was suffused, having a hue of blood in the centre. The ninth was dark, having only one bright ray. And when the sibyl entered Rome, the Romans, beholding her, admired her exceeding beauty ; for she had a beautiful face, an elegant person, was graceful in her gestures, copious in eloquence, pouring forth to her hearers an acceptable discourse, fraught with proofs of great wisdom. The men, then, who had seen these dreams came to her, for her fame had been widely spoken of and celebrated ; and they say, " 0 mistress and queen, we entreat you by the great beauty of your person, and by the wisdom of your mind, and by the eloquence of your mouth, such as we nave never found in any other woman, to explain and interpret to us a certain wonderful dream, in which we all, a hundred in number, saw separately in one night, and to set before us what it indicates of futurity." The illustrious virgin answered and said to them, " It is not proper to reveal a sacred mystery in a dunghill or a place which is polluted with all sorts of contamination." (For after she had heard the beforementioned dream related to her by them all, one after another, she felt her spirit agitated, and was amazed at the strangeness of the matter.) "Come, then," she added, "and let us