A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Icasia

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ICASIA,

Spouse of Theophilus, Emperor of Constantinople, in 829. He having assembled the most beautiful young women of the empire, for the purpose of choosing a wife, fixed upon Icasia, and gave orders for her coronation; but on her answering some questions he proposed to her, in a manner at once learned and acute, he changed his mind. Icasia, therefore, retired to a monastery, where she composed many works. The emperor had the same taste, probably, for foolish flippant women, as characterized Charles the Second. King of England.