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 Mundas was introduced to her as Anubis. Upon the third day after this, Mundos met Paulina, and, in a keen and sarcastic speech, ridiculed her for her credulity, and informed her of her mistake. Paulina, in the greatest distress, hastened to her husband, and urged him vehemently not to suffer such an indignity to pass unpunished. Saturninus appealed to Tiberius, who caused Ide and the priests of Isis to be crucified for sacrilege, the temple of Isis to be thrown down, and her statue cast into the Tiber. Mundus was simply banished.  PAULINA of Seneca, the celebrated Roman philosopher, insisted upon sharing her husband's fate, who was condemned to die by the order of the Emperor Nero. Her veins were accordingly opened at the same time; but fainting from loss of blood, Nero sent and commanded her wounds to be bound up, and conjured her to live. She, however, survived her husband but a short time, looking wan and miserable, and oppressed with the deepest melancholy. She was much younger than her husband. These events occurred about the year 68.  PEABODY, ELIZABETH PALMER, Daughter of Dr. N. Peabody, is descended on the mother's side from the two Joseph Palmers, one of whom was President and the other Secretary of the first Provincial Congress that assembled in Massachusetts to consider British wrongs, and both of whom, the father as Brigadier-General, the son as his aid, were engaged in the battle of Lexington. Miss Peabody was born May 16th., 1804, at Billerica, and lived in her early life at Salem, Mass., but, since 1822, has resided principally in Boston, where she has been engaged in education and literary pursuits. She first published a "Key to Hebrew History," and a "Key to Grecian History;" she next wrote the "Records of a School," which went into the second edition; and also contributed to the early numbers of the "Journal of Education;" to the "Christian Examiner" of 1834, in which are some articles on the "Spirit of the Hebrew Scriptures;" and to the "Dial," in which she wrote the articles on Socialism. In 1849, Miss Peabody edited "The Æsthetic Papers," to which she contributed an article "On the Dorian Culture," more elaborate than anything else she has written; and a paper upon "The Significance of the Alphabet," besides several shorter articles and poems. Her latest work is a school-book, entitled the "Polish-American System of Chronology," being a modified translation of General Bern's method of teaching history on a Chronological System.

Miss Peabody's writings are of a class unusual to her sex. They evince great learning and research, a mind free from the trammels of prejudice, and capable of judging for itself on whatever subject its attention may be turned, one whose aim is high—no less than the progressive improvement of her race, and who presses forward to the end she has in view, with an earnestness and energy proportioned to its importance. Her poems are harmonious, and show more thought than is usually seen in such occasional effusions. Still we look for a greater work from her pen than any she has yet sent forth. Miss Peabody is of the transcendental school of writers, though not among the mystics. We do not endorse all her ideas, but only commend her philanthropic spirit.