Amaltheia
2. One of the Sibyls (Tibull, 2.5. 67), whom Lactantius (1.6) identifies with the Cunmaean Sibyl, who is said to have sold to king Tarquinius the celebrated Sibylline books. The same is stated by Servius (Serv. ad Aen. 6.72) and by Lydus (de Mens. 4.34); comp. Klausen, Aeneas und die. Penaten, p. 299, &c.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.