a Roman poetess, who lived under the reign of Domitian, and has been so much admired as to be termed the Roman Sappho. We have nothing, however, left of her writings but a satire, or rather the fragment of one, against Domitian, who published a decree for the banishment of philosophers from Rome. This satire is to be found in Scaliger's Appendix Virgiliana, and in other collections. It was separately published, with elaborate annotations by C. G. Schwartz. Atorf. 1721; 8vo. Hamb. 1819, 4to. She is mentioned by Martial and Sidonius Apollinaris; and is said to have addressed a poem on conjugal love to her husband Calenus, a Roman knight.

SULPITIUS Severus, an ecclesiastical writer, was born in Aquitania about the year 383. His father was a man of superior rank. Having received a suitable education, the son applied himself to the practice of the law, and distinguished himself by his learning and eloquence. He married a rich wife, and was thus placed in a state of greater independence. He chiefly resided at Toulouse, and at Eluso or Elusio, near Carcassonne. The death of his beloved wife weaned his affections from the world, and he is supposed to have devoted himself to an ecclesiastical, if not a monastic life. He had recourse to the instructions of Martin bishop of Tours, whose life he has written; and he likewise contracted a friendship with Paulinus bishop of Nola. The invasion of the Vandals impelled him to seek a place of refuge at Marsicile, where he entered a monastery, and is supposed to have died about the year 410. His principal work is his Historia Sacra, deduced from the creation of the world to his own time, and written in a style superior to the standard of that declining age of Latinity. The first edition was published by Placius Illyricus. Basil. [1556] 8vo. Various editions of his works subsequently appeared; some of which were illustrated by the notes of Sigismund Vorstius, Horn, and Le Clerc. A more elaborate edition was undertaken by De Prato, Verone, 1741-54; 2 tomi. 4to. He promised a third volume, which however did not make its appearance.