A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Proba, Valeria Palconia

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4121010A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography — Proba, Valeria Palconia

PROBA, VALERIA PALCONIA,

Was the wife of Adolphus, the Roman proconsul, in the reigns of Honorious and Theodosius the Younger. She composed a Virgilian cento upon the books of the Old and New Testaments, which was printed at Frankfort, in 1541. She also wrote an epitaph on her husband.