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Rh called Metrodidactos, taught by his mother: and after the death of Aristippus, his daughter was unanimously elected head of the school. All her cotemporaries have cited her as a prodigy of beauty, virtue, understanding and knowledge. The five daughters of Diodorus Cronus were likewise famous for their knowledge and virtue.

of Alyattes, king of Lydia, by her genius and eloquence, reconciled the Medes and Lydians, who had been at war five years. of the poet Lucan, cultivated herself the art with success, and corrected the Pharsalia, after the death of her husband. A Learned woman, of whom St. Clement, of Alexandria, makes mention. The time she lived in is unknown. She wrote a history of Dionysius, tyrant of Syracuse. of Nearchus, a celebrated painter of Sycion—became his disciple, and obtained great fame from painting an Esculapius. ARNAULD,