*Nam Sibyllam quidem Cumis ego ipse oculis meis vidi in ampulla pendere, et cum illi pueri dicerent: Σίβυλλα τί θέλεις; respondebat illa: ἀποθανεῖν θέλω.*
*For with my own eyes I saw the Sibyl hanging in a bottle, and when the young boys asked her, 'Sibyl, what do you want?', she replied, 'I want to die'*. - From the epigraph of The Waste Land, borrowed and translated from Petronius's Satyricon. The immortal Cumaean Sibyl who failed to ask for eternal youth when she asked Apollo for as many years of life as grains of sand she could hold in her hand. -- Sumant Srivathsan http://sumants.blogspot.com
