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SULPICIA

Volume 20 · 114 words · 1860 Edition

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, ascribed to this poetess, written 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, Altorf, 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.