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PRAXILLA  , of

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

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