, a Greek poetess, is mentioned by different writers as a native
, a Greek poetess, is mentioned by different
writers as a native of Lesbos, of Teios, of Rhodes, and of
Tenos in Laconia, and is supposed to have been contemporary with Sappho, about the year 600 B. C. but according to the Chronicle of Eusebius 250 years later. She was
celebrated in ancient Greece, and several epigrams were
written upon her, one of which speaks of her as inferior to
Sappho in lyrics, and superior in hexameters. Some fragments are extant in her name, which are inserted in the
“Carmina Novem Poetarum Foeminarum,
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