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SULPICIA . the name of two See also:

Roman poets. The earlier lived in the reign of See also:Augustus, and was a niece of Messalla, the See also:patron of literature. Her verses, which were preserved with those of See also:Tibullus and were for See also:long attributed to him, are elegiac poems addressed to a See also:lover called See also:Cerinthus, possibly the See also:Cornutus addressed by Tibullus in two of his Elegies (bk. ii., 2 and 3; see Schanz, Gesch. d. rom. Litt. § 284; F. Plessis, La Poesie latine, pp. 376-377 and references there given). The younger Sulpicia lived during the reign of See also:Domitian. She is praised by See also:Martial (x. 35, 38), who compares her to See also:Sappho, as a See also:model of wifely devotion, and wrote a See also:volume of poems, describing with consider-able freedom of See also:language the methods adopted to retain her See also:husband See also:Calenus's See also:affection. An extant poem (70 hexameters) also bears her name. It is in the See also:form of a See also:dialogue between Sulpicia and the muse See also:Calliope, and is chiefly a protest against the banishment of the philosophers by the See also:edict of Domitian (A.D.

94), as likely to throw See also:

Rome back into a See also:state of barbarism. At the same See also:time Sulpicia expresses the See also:hope that no harm will befall Calenus. The muse reassures her, and prophesies the downfall of the See also:tyrant. It is now generally agreed that the poem (the MS. of which was discovered in the monastery of See also:Bobbio in 1493, but has long been lost) is not by Sulpicia, but is of much later date, probably the 5th See also:century; according to some it is a 15th-century See also:production, and not identical with the Bobbio poem. See also:Editions by 0. See also:Jahn (with See also:Juvenal and See also:Persius, revised by F. Biicheler, 1893) and in E. Bahrens, De Sulpiciae quae vocatur satrra (1873) ; see also monograph by J. C. See also:Boot (1868) ; R. See also:Ellis in See also:Academy, (Dec. i1, 1869) and See also:Journal of See also:Philology (1874), vol. v.; O. See also:Ribbeck, Geschichte der romischen Dichtung (1892), vol. iii.; H.

E. See also:

Butler, See also:Post-Augustan See also:Poetry (1909), pp. 174–176; M. Schanz, Geschichte der romischen Litteratur (1900), iii. 2; See also:Teuffel, Hist. of Roman Literature (Eng. trans., 1900), p. 233, 6. There are See also:English See also:translations by L. See also:Evans in See also:Bohn's Classical Library (See also:prose, with Juvenal and Persius) and by J. Grainger (See also:verse, 1759).

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