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Rh she hath bequeathed to posterity." Cicero says, in his Rhetoric, "That if the name of woman had not distinguished Cornelia, she had deserved the first place among philosophers; because he never saw such grave sentences proceed from any mortal creature as were contained in her writings."

A statue was erected on her sepulchre, with this inscription:—"Here lieth interred the most learned Cornelia, mother of the Gracchi: she was both happy and fortunate in her disciples, whom she instructed, though unhappy in her children."

herself entirely to the study of poetry, because "science is the only thing which is not subject to the caprices of fortune."

of vast erudition, who applied herself with success, to various branches of literature, particularly poetry. COUDRAY,