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TheSamian Sibyl was the priestess presiding over theApollonianoracle nearHera's temple on the Isle ofSamos, aGreek colony. The wordSibyl comes (viaLatin) from theancient Greek wordsibylla, meaningprophetess. There were many Sibyls in the ancient world but she is the one who prophesied the Birth of Jesus in the stable. The Samian Sibyl, by name Phemonoe, or Phyto of whomEratosthenes wrote.[citation needed]
TheSuda's lexicon says that theErythraean Sibyl was also called Samian.[citation needed]Pausanias confirms that theErythraean Sibyl lived the greater part of her life inSamos (Phocis, 12, 5).[citation needed] The Samian Sibyl was known as Phyto, or better Foito, from the Greek wordfoitos, which indicates the wandering, especially the mind's. Modern researchers of Samos island consider that her house was in the cave of Panagia Spiliani monastery, which probably is also the cavern ofPythagoras, according to the testimony of theNeoplatonic philosopherPorphyry.
Interesting is the reference ofSymeon Metaphrastes (the greatest of theByzantine historians), which says that the Samian Sibyl existed when the city ofByzantium was built, the famous ancientcolony of theMegarians, which was converted byConstantine the Great into the capital of the empire, after having rebuilt, and was calledConstantinople.[citation needed] "During this time Sibyl is known in Samos, and the Byzantium was built under the Megarians". (Simeon Logothetis, Leon Grammatikos chronographia, page 37)[citation needed]
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