Sulpicia
poet · Rome · 1st century BC
Almost the only woman poet of ancient Rome whose work survives. Six short love poems of hers were preserved among another poet's.
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late 1st century BC
My hateful birthday is here, to be spent in gloom in the tiresome country, and without Cerinthus. What is sweeter than the city?
Inuisus natalis adest, qui rure molesto
et sine Cerintho tristis agendus erit.
Dulcius urbe quid est?Tibullus, book 3, poem 14 (a poem of Sulpicia)
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