Very little is known about her life other than she was tutored in the liberal arts. She knew Virgil's poems quite well and memorized most of them. She devised a scheme one day that the history of the Bible could be compiled in a pleasant easy to read verse. In her pious scheme she researched Bucolics, the Georgics, and the Aeneid. She would then mix various lines from each with great care and skill to complete a story. They were done expertly following all the rules of meter and the respect of verse that a connoisseur had trouble detecting the scheme. There is one poem, attributed to her by modern scholars, that survives reflecting this. It is a cento called Cento virgilianus and presents the Biblical story from the creation of the world up to the coming of the Holy Spirit by using 694 lines from Virgil. It is said to have been done so expertly that most experts would have trouble distinglishing this from Virgil himself since it reflects a scholarly knowledge of the Bible. This poem was declared apocryphal (not heretic, but also not allowed to be read in public) by Pope Gelasius I and is her only surviving work. She also wrote a Homericcento with verses taken from Homer that was basically the same scheme. She was skilled in both the Greek and Latin languages.
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