A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Anicia

ANICIA, or VALERIA, (PROBA FALCONIA)

Wife of Anicius Probus, who was a Roman consul, in 371, with the emperor Gratian. She rendered herself illustrious by her understanding, and her piety. St. Augustin, Chrysostom, and Jerome, have all praised her in the highest manner. She composed a life of our Saviour, by putting together divers lines and passages of Virgil, with which she formed what the Latins called Centos, a sort of composition with more conceit than merit attached to it.

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