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mingled the dogmas of philosophy with the doctrines of Christianity. She died 409, soon after Rome was taken by the Goths.

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MARCIA, (DI MARCO VARRONE),

A female painter, who drew many Roman women; she surpassed, in velocity of pencil, Sopilus and Dionysius, the most celebrated painters of the age.

Abecedario Pitt.

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MARCIA PROBA, Wife of Guithelind, King of the Ancient Britons, before the Birth of our Saviour.

It is said, that having lost her husband very young, she took into her own hand the reins of government, and employed herself in making his people happy, by the wise laws she gave them. These laws were called Leges Marcianœ, or the Marcian Laws. They were translated into Latin by Gildas, and into Saxon by Alfred the Great.

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MARESCOTTI (MARGARET),

A poetess of Sienna, in the 16th century, of much merit.

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MARGARET (QUEEN OF SCOTLAND); a Woman of the rarest Piety, and of a Character fitted to throw a Lustre on the purest Ages.

She was sister to Edgar Atheling, the grandson of Ed-

mond