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PRAXILLA , of See also:

Sicyon, See also:Greek lyric poetess, one of the so-called nine " lyric " See also:Muses, flourished about 450 B.C. According to See also:Athenaeus (xv. 694), she was famous as a composer of scolia (See also:short lyrical poems sung after See also:dinner), which were considered equal to those of See also:Alcaeus and See also:Anacreon. She also wrote dithyrambs and See also:hymns, chiefly on mystic and mythological subjects, genealogies, and the love-stories of the gods and heroes. A dactylic See also:metre was also called by her name. Fragments in T. See also:Bergk, Poetae lyrici graeci, vol. iii.; see also C. F. Neue, De Praxillae Sicyoniae reliquiis (progr. Dorpat, 1844).

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