CORINNA, a Grecian lady, celebrated for her
beauty and poetic talents, was born at Theſſu a city
of Bœotia, and was the disciple of Myrtis another Gre-
cian lady. Her verses were so esteemed by the
Greeks, that they gave her the name of the lyric
muse. She lived in the time of Pindar, about 495
years before Christ; and is said to have gained the
prize of lyric poetry from that poet: but Pausanias
observes that her beauty made the judges partial.