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Cyclopedia of Biblical, Theological and Ecclesiastical Literature

first abbess of the convent of Argensoles, flourished in the first half of the 13th century. She was a remarkable woman, very learned, and acknowledged to have disputed on the most intricate theological questions with great ability. She died in 1226. Her life was written by a monk of Citeaux, but remains in MS. form. — Histoire Litt. de la France, 18, 251; Hoefer, Nouv. Biog. G É neral É , 26, 174.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

The name of two mountains in the East, one in Crete, on which Zeus was brought up in a cave near it, and one in Asia Minor, near Troy, "Woody Ida," the scene of the rape of Ganymedes and of the judgment of Paris, also a seat of Cybele worship.