A Biographical Dictionary of the Celebrated Women of Every Age and Country/Icasia
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ICASIA.
The emperor Theophilus having assembled the most beautiful young women of the empire, for the purpose of chusing 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 into a monastery, where she composed many works.
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