A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Eurydice

From Wikisource
Jump to navigation Jump to search

EURYDICE,

An Illyrian lady, is commended by Plutarch, for applying herself to study, though already advanced in years, and a native of a barbarous country, that she might be enabled to educate her children. She consecrated to the muses an inscription, in which this circumstance is mentioned.