A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Praxilla

by Mary Matilda Betham

PRAXILLA, a Sicyonian Dithyrambic Poetess, of whose writing there is a Work, intituled Metrum Praxilleum.

She is said to have flourished in the 32d olympiad, about 402 B. C. and is reckoned by Antipater Thessalus among the nine most famous lyrics.

Female Worthies.