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412 contained are quoted in an old English ecclesiastical history, and appear to have been written by a zealous, godly, and understanding woman, disgusted with the vices of her own age, and foreseeing that they would still bring forth more. Shocked that crimes and hypocrisy should pollute that holy religion in which her hope was grounded. She wrote also a poem upon medicine, and a book of Latin poems.

herself to philosophy, and wrote some things which have not been transmitted down to us; among which were tragedies, philosophical hypotheses, or suppositions; some reasons and questions proposed to Theodorus, surnamed the Atheist, &c. She married the philosopher Crates, notwithstanding his poverty, deformity, and the opposition of her parents, conforming, from her love to learning, cheerfully to his way of life. She had a son by him, named Pasicles.

daughter of Chiron the centaur, is numbered with the most celebrated Grecian philosophers. F.C.

, when very young, was induced by the  ments