tragedy. Her voice was beyond description plaintive and musical, yet far from deficient in powers for the expression of resentment or disdain, she possessed an equal command of features; and though she latterly lost the bloom of heath, and grew thin, yet there still remained so complete a symmetry and proportion in the different parts of her form, that it was impossible to view her figure and not believe her in the prime of youth. Her success in comedy was not equal to the applause she met with in tragedy.
She translated The Oracle, a piece in two acts, from the French of Saintfoix, which was performed for her benefit in the year 1750, and received with applause. She was a Roman Catholic, and died 1766, at her house in Scotland-yard, Whitehall, of a rupture in one of the coats of the stomach; her disorder having equally surprised and baffled the physicians who attended her.
CLAUDIA RUFINA, a noble British Lady, about the Year 100, Wife of Aulus Rufus Pudens, a Bononian Philosopher, and one of the Roman Equestrian Order;
Said to have been a great associate with the poet Martial, who, in many places, highly extols her for beauty, learning, and eminent virtues: of her poetic writings, Balæus mentions a book of Epigrams, Elegy on her Husband's Death, and other verses om various subjects; besides which, she is said to have written many things in prose.
