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Albunea was in Roman mythology a prophetic nymph or Sibyl, a naiad who lived in the sulfuric spring near Tivoli, with a well and a temple.1 Near it was the oracle of Faunus Fatidicus.234 Lactantius states that the tenth Sibyl, called Albunea, was worshiped at Tibur, and that her image, holding a book in one hand, was found in the bed of the river Anio.5 Her sortes, or oracles, which belonged to the Latin: libri fatales were, at the command of the senate, deposited and kept in the Capitol. The small square temple of this Sibyl is still extant at Tivoli.
Her name is derived from the whiteness (from albinus, "white") of the sulfurous water at her spring.6 She was one of the Pegaeae.
References
- ^ Schmitz, Leonhard (1867), "Albunea", in Smith, William, Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology, 1, Boston: Little, Brown and Company, pp. 94
- ^ Virgil, Aeneid vii. 81, &c.
- ^ Horace, Carmina i. 7. 12
- ^ Tibullus, ii. 5. 69
- ^ Lactantius, De Sibyll. i. 6
- ^ Harrison, Stephen J. (1996), "Albunea", in Hornblower, Simon, Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press
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