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Sibylline Oracles

Book 8, Line 161 by Greek source text (Ancient Greek)

καὶ Θήβῃσι κακή γε μένει μετόπισθεν ἅλωσις.

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Greek text parsed from the Online Critical Pseudepigrapha XML witness, a proofread transcription of J. Geffcken, Die Oracula Sibyllina (GCS 8; Leipzig, 1902), pinned to the public OCP GitHub source.