gnostus

Updated: June 3, 2025

A mysterious woman, endowed with preternatural longevity believed to be no other than Deiphobe, the Cumæan Sibyl herself, the daughter of Circe and Gnostus, who had been the guide of Æneas into the world of the dead appeared before Tarquin and offered him for a certain price nine books, which contained her prophecies in mystic rhyme.

Hugh Macmillan - Roman Mosaics: Or, Studies in Rome and Its Neighbourhood