was a famous prostitute, who flourished at Athens about 328 years before the Christian era. She was mistress of Praxiteles, who drew her picture, which

proverbs intimate their servile temper; and show that they were more fit to bewail misfortunes in an unmanly manner, than to prevent them by proper measures. Their music, too, was suited to their effeminate temper. The Doric mood was a kind of grave and solid music; the Lydian a doleful and lamentable harmony; but the Phrygian chiefly calculated to effeminate and enervate the mind. But this character is contradicted by others.

(n) Goropius Becanus makes use of the same argument, to prove that the High-Dutch is the original or mother-tongue of the world, because the word beker in that language signifies "a baker." Phrynicus which was one of his best pieces, and was placed in the temple of Apollo at Delphi. We are told that Apelles painted his Venus Anadyomene after he had seen Phryne on the seashore naked, and with disheveled hair. Phryne became so very rich by the liberality of her lovers, that she offered to rebuild Thebes at her own expense, which Alexander had destroyed, provided this inscription was placed on the walls: Alexander diruit, sed meretrix Phryne fecit; which was refused. See Plin. 34. c. 8.—There was another of the same name who was accused of impiety. When she found that she was going to be condemned, she unveiled her bosom, which so influenced her judges, that she was immediately acquitted.