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26 History relates no particular actions of this princess; but says she governed with much wisdom and courage.

Landenulph was assassinated by a plot of his own relations, in 993; and his brother Laidulph, who succeeded, was deposed by the emperor Otho III, in 999, for having a hand in the death of his brother.

It is reported, by an old historian in the life of St. Nil, that Aloara put to death a nephew, lest he should wrest the principality from her son; and, that St. Nil then predicted the failure of her posterity.

was called the Arabian Sappho; and excellent works of her composition are in the library of the Escurial. Many Spanish women, her cotemporaries, particularly in the province of Andalusia, cultivated the Muses with success.

young woman is mentioned in L'Histoire Litteraire de la France, as having, in a sort of vision or ecstacy, an idea of the form of the globe, similar to those of late geographers. She reported, that she saw the whole world as one compact body. The sun appeared larger to her than the earth, which hung like an egg suspended in the middle of the air, and was on all sides surrounded with water. This idea, which perhaps some simple observation first gave rise to in the mind of Alpis