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Sulpicia
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Also known as Sulpicia I

Sulpicia is believed to be the author, in the first century BCE, of six short poems (some 40 lines in all) written in Latin which were published as part of the corpus of Albius Tibullus's poetry (poems 3.13–18). She is one of the few female poets of ancient Rome whose work survives.

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  • Decii Junii Juvenalis
  • Oeuvres completes d'Horace, de Juvénal, de Perse, de Sulpicia, de Turnus, de Catulle, de Properce, de Gallus et Maximien, de Tibulle, de Phèdre et de Syrus
  • Satirarum libri quinque
  • Juvenals und Sulpizia's sämtliche nach dem beygefügten Henninischen Grundtext in Verse übersetzt und mit Anmerkungen begleitet von Friedrich Gottfried Abel
  • D. Iunii Iuvenalis Satirarum libri quinque

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Quotes

  • Tandem venit amor, qualem texisse pudori  quam nudasse alicui sit mihi, Fama, magis.
  • Exoluit promissa Venus: mea gaudia narret,  dicetur si quis non habuisse sua.
  • Sed peccasse iuvat, vultus componere famae  taedet: cum digno digna fuisse ferar.
  • Ne tibi sim, mea lux, aeque iam fervida cura  ac videor paucos ante fuisse dies,si quicquam tota commisi stulta iuventa  cuius me fatear paenituisse magis,hesterna quam te solum quod nocte reliqui  ardorem cupiens dissimulare meum.

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Wikidata facts

Instance of
human
Gender
female
Citizenship
Ancient Rome
Languages spoken
Latin
Field of work
poetry
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date of birth
0100-01-01
writing language
Latin
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Encyclopedic overview

14 sections
Contents
  • Life
  • Poetry
  • The poems
  • Poem 1
  • Poem 2
  • Poem 3
  • Poem 4
  • Poem 5
  • Poem 6
  • Translations
  • Editions
  • See also
  • Notes
  • Further reading

Sulpicia is believed to be the author, in the first century BCE, of six short poems (some 40 lines in all) written in Latin which were published as part of the corpus of Albius Tibullus's poetry (poems 3.13–18). She is one of the few female poets of ancient Rome whose work survives.

==Life== Sulpicia has been tentatively identified as the granddaughter of Cicero's friend Servius Sulpicius Rufus, whose son of the same name married Valeria, sister of Marcus Valerius Messalla Corvinus, an important patron of literature who also launched the career of Ovid. If this is correct, Sulpicia's family were well-off citizens with connections to Emperor Augustus, since her uncle Messalla (consul in 31 BC) served as a commander for Augustus.

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