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Name Deiphobe
Gender Feminine
Usage Greek Mythology, Roman Mythology
Scripts Δηιφόβη, Δηΐφόβη, Δηϊφοβη(Ancient Greek)
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Meaning & History
Feminine form of DEIPHOBOS. In Greek and Roman mythology, Deiphobe was a daughter of the seer Glaukos, an oracle of Apollo at Cumae in Italy, and later became known as the Cumaean Sybil. It was from her that the last king of Rome, Tarquin the Proud, received the three Sybilline Books that contained such important prophecies concerning Rome. She is mentioned in Virgil's "Aeneid."