This Sibyl is famed in poetic story as having been visited by Æneas: an interview described with much graphic minuteness by Virgil, in Book VI. of the Æneid. Endless legends have accumulated in connection with her, and her presence is associated with many spots in and around Naples. Ferdinand Piper states that the names of Amalthea, Demophile, and Herophile have been given to her by different writers,[44] and that Justin Martyr asserts that she was daughter of Berosus, and came from Babylon to Campania. She is said to have lived for a thousand years; and to have been the ancient prophetess, who offered the Sibylline Books to Tarquin. These books, the oldest collection of which was, according to tradition, made about the time of Solon and Cyrus, by the Sibyl of Marpessus (the Erythraean Sibyl), at Gergis, on Mount Ida, found their way thence to Erythrae; from there to Cumae; and so to Rome. In 83 B.C. they were burned; but fragments of their contents continued to exist orally until A.D. 12, when they were collected and revised by the Emperor Augustus, and were surviving in 363. In the year 400 they were again destroyed by Stilicho; and the present so-called Sibylline books are a spurious invention of Jewish and Christian writers. Here she appears as a somewhat severe old woman, with a veil wound round her head. In her right hand she carries the mistletoe bough of the Virgilian story; and with her left she clasps to her three books. Piled on the ground to her right, and burning, are six more, representing those destroyed by her in the Tarquinian legend; and above her left shoulder two flying cherubs bear a tablet, with the following inscription: VLTIMA CVMAEI VENIT IAM CARMINIS AETAS MAGNUS ABINTEGRO SAECLORVM NASCITVR ORDO IAM RE DIT ET VIRGO, REDEVNT SATVRNIA REGNA, IAM NOVA PROGENIES CAELO DEMITTITVR ALTO (Now has come the last period of Cumaean song, A great order of the ages is born afresh. The Virgin now returns; the kingdoms of Saturn return. Now a new progeny is sent down from lofty Heaven.) Her label bears the words “Sibilla Cumana meminit Virgilius. Eclog. IV.” This figure is the work of Giovanni di Maestro Stefano di Giovanni and his scholars, and was executed by him in 1482.[45] He received for it the sum of 697 lire, 9 soldi and 2 c. It was restored at the same time as the other Sibyls, in 1866–69, at a cost of 2,743 lire 6 c. _The Erythraean Sibyl._