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 whom, by her modest and virtuous conduct, she reclaimed. After his death she retired to Geneva, where she devoted herself to acts of piety and benevolence. She wrote several works on divinity; and died in 1510, aged sixty-three.  ADRIAM, MARIE,

who in 1793, at the age of sixteen, fought valiantly during the whole time that Lyons was besieged. On being arrested after the engagement, and asked how she had dared to take up arms? she replied, "I used them to serve my country, and deliver it from its oppressors!" She was immediately condemned, and executed.  ADRICHOMIA, CORNELIA,

of the noble family of Adrictem, and a nun in Holland of the St. Augustine order, who lived in the sixteenth century, published a poetical version of the psalms, with several other religious poems. Her excellent understanding and erudition are commended by writers of her own time. She composed for herself the following epitaph:—

 ÆMELIA,

, according to Dionysius, and Valerius Maximus, a vestal virgin, who being condemned to die for her negligence in allowing the sacred fire, which it was her duty to watch and feed, to become extinguished, rekindled the embers miraculously by throwing her veil over them.  ÆMELIA JULIANA,

, was the daughter of Abul Fredrick, Count of Barby; she was born on the 10th. of August, 1637, and in 1665, married Count Abert Anton, whose title she bore. She died on the 2nd. of December, 1706, and left behind her a reputation for great piety and benevolence, and some poetical talent, resting in some spiritual poems composed during her hours of leisure; many of these were subsequently adopted into the hymn books used in the Protestant churches of Saxony and Thuringia.  ÆMELIA TERTIA,

of Æmelius Paulus the First, wife of Scipio Africanus the First, and mother of Cornelia, who was mother of the Gracchi; she was celebrated for her conjugal affection and prudence, as well as for her wealth and splendour. The exact date either of her birth or death, is not recorded.  ÆMELIA TERTIA,

daughter of Lucius Æmelius Paulus the Second, who received from her lips the first favourable omen of his victory over Persius, king of Macedonia. It is said that Æmelius, returning from the comitia found his daughter weeping, and, taking her in his arms,