A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Proba-Falconia

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PROBA-FALCONIA, Author of a Virgilian Canto on the Life of our Saviour, written in the Reign of Theodosius and Honorius.

This lady, who was married to a person of proconsular dignity, was accused by some of having betrayed Rome into the hands of Alaric the Goth; but Cæsar Baronius has fully cleared her from that disloyal imputation.

Grainger.