A Cyclopaedia of Female Biography/Telesilla
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TELESILLA.
A noble poetess of Argos, who being advised by the oracle, which she had consulted respecting her health, to the study of the muses, soon attained such excellence, as to animate by her poetry the Argive women to repel, under her command, Cleomenes, the Spartan king, and afterwards King Demaratus, from the siege of Parophiliacum, with great loss.