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290 have been fully established by the public memorial of her picture, exhibited in her native city, and adorned with a symbol of her victory. Pausanius, who saw it, supposes her to have been one of the handsomest women of her age. Time has left us only a few scraps of Corinna's poetry. She did justice to the superiority of Pindar's genius; but advised him not to suffer his poetical ornaments to intrude so often, as they smothered the principal subject; comparing it to pouring a vase of flowers, all at once, upon the ground; when their beauty and excellence could only be observed in proportion to their rarity and situation. .

the first who, by the shade of a lamp, drew on the wall the profile of her lover, which, when filled and raised by her father, who worked in plaster, served a long time in Sicyon for an example; from which the art went on to perfection. .

honorary name given to the poetess (improvisatrice) D. Maria Maddalena Morelli Fernandez, who was solemnly crowned with the laurel in the capitol at Rome. The facility and ease with which she composed extempore verses in any metre, and on any literary subject, had rendered her the object of universal admiration; so that the greatest and most learned people thought themselves honoured in visiting her. Many princes