, a Roman poetess, who flourished about 395, under the emperor Honorius,
, a Roman poetess, who flourished
about 395, under the emperor Honorius, was a native of
Horta, or Hortanum, in Etruria. There is still extant by
her, a cento from Virgil, giving the sacred history from
the creation to the deluge; and the history of Christ, in
verses selected from that poet, introduced by a few lines
of her own. Authors have sometimes confounded her with
Anicia Falconia Proba, the mother of three consuls: and
some have said she was that Valeria Proba, who was the
wife of Adelfius, a proconsul. Her poem was first published with Ausonius, at Venice, 1472, under the title
“Probae Falconiae, cento ^Virgilianus, seu Centimetrum
de Christo, versibus Virgilianis compaginatum.
” The
last edition is that of Wolfius in the “Mulierum Grxcarum
Frag.
” Hamb.