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Praxilla

Πράξιλλα). A Greek poetess of Sicyon, about B.C. 450, who composed hymns and dithyrambs, but was especially famous for her scolia, or drinking-songs. We possess only insignificant fragments of her poems (Suidas, s. h. v.).

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