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Rh There is nothing which death does not conquer. Ninon, who more than an age has served love, Now submits to his power; She was the honour and the shame of her sex. Inconstant in her desires, Refined in her pleasures, A faithful and wise friend, A tender, but capricious lover; Delicacy and gallantry both reigned in her heart, and showed the power of a combination of the charms of Venus, and the sense of an angel. F. C. &c.

she defended against Theophrastus, chief of the sect of the Peripatetics, and the most eloquent philosopher of his time. Her writings had success, and were particularly admired for the correctness and elegance of the stile.

She was celebrated by the poet Harmesianax, of Colophon, in his Elegies, and was a very learned and accomplished woman. She had a son by Metrodorus, one of her own sect, and a daughter Danaë, who was likewise a courtesan. F.C.

daughter, who showed from her infancy the happiest disposition, was early accustomed to business. Her father acquainted her with his most important  feirs.