Sulpicia
1. The mother-in-law (socrus), of Sp. Postumius Albinus, by whose instrumentality the latter, in his consulship, B. C. 168, became acquainted with the crimes perpetrated in connection with the worship of Bacchus. (Liv. 39.11_13.)
2. The daughter of Ser. Sulpicius Paterculus, and the wife of Q. Fulvius Flaccus. She was declared to be the chastest woman in Rome, and was therefore selected, in B. C. 113, to dedicate the statue of Venus Verticordia, who was believed to turn the minds of women from vice to virtue. (V. Max. 8.15.12; Plin. Nat. 7.35.)
3. The wife of Lentulus Cruscellio. Her husband was proscribed by the triumvirs in B. C. 43, and fled to Sex. Pompeius in Sicily, whither Sulpicia followed him, against the wish of her mother Julia. (V. Max. 6.7.3; Appian, App. BC 4.39.)
4. Sulpicia Praetextata, the wife of Crassus, is mentioned at the commencement of the reign of Vespasian, A. D. 70. (Tac. Hist. 4.42.)
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A Roman poetess who flourished towards the close of the first century. Works Poems
Sulpicia was celebrated for sundry gay amatory effusions, addressed to her husband Calenus.
Their general character may be gathered from the expressions of Martial, Ausonius, and Sidonius Apollinaris, by all of whom they are noticed.
Two lines from one of these productions have been preserved by the scholiast upon Juvenal, Sat. 6.536. Further Information
Martial. Ep. 10.35-38; Auson. Epilog. Cent. Nupt. ; Sidon. Apollin. Carm. 9.260 ; Anthol. Lat. 3.251, ed. Burmann, or No. 198, ed. Meyer. Satirical poem published under the name of Ausonius but written by an earlier female poet
We find in the collected works of Ausonius, as first published by Ugoletus (4to. Parm. 1499, Venet. 1501), a satirical poem, in seventy hexameters, on the edict of Domitian, by which philosophers were banished from Rome and from Italy (Suet. Dom. 10 ; Gel. 15.11). It has been frequently reprinted, and generally bears the title Satyricon Carmen s. Ecloga de edicto Domitiani, or Satyra de corrupto reipublicae statu temporibus Domitiani. When closely examined it soon appeared manifest that it could not belong to the rhetorician of Bordeaux, but that it must have been written by some one who lived at the period to which the theme refers, that the author was a female (5.8), and that she had previously composed a multitude of sportive pieces in a great variety of measures. Hence many critics, struck by these coincidences, have not hesitated to ascribe the lines in question to the Sulpicia mentioned above, the contemporary of Martial, and in almost all the more recent collections of the minor Latin poets they bear her name. In a literary point of view they possess little interest, being weak, pointless, and destitute of spirit. (Wernsdorf, Poet. Lat. Min. vol iii. p. lx. and p. 83.) Editions
The satire is generally appended to editions of Juvenal and Persius. [W.R]
originally patrician, and afterwards plebeian likewise. It was one of the most ancient Roman gentes, and produced a succession of distinguished men, from the foundation of the republic to the imperial period. The first member of it who obtained the consulship was Ser. Sulpicius Camerinus Cornutus, in B. C. 500, only nine years after the expulsion of the Tarquins, and the last of the name who appears on the consular Fasti was Sex. Sulpicius Tertullus in A. D. 158. The family names of the Sulpicii during the republican period are -- Camerinus Cornutus, Galba, Gallus, Longus, Paterculus, Peticus, Praetextatus, Quirinus, Rufus (given below), Saverrio. Besides these cognomens, we meet with some other surnames belonging to freedmen and to other persons under the empire, which are given below. On coins we find the surnames Galba, Platorinus, Proclus, Rufus.
A Roman poetess who flourished towards the close of the first century A.D. She is celebrated for sundry amatory effusions, addressed to her husband Calenus. There is extant a satirical poem, in seventy hexameters, on the edict of Domitian by which philosophers were banished from Rome and from Italy, which is ascribed to Sulpicia by many modern critics, but is undoubtedly of very late origin, and perhaps is merely the elaboration of a school theme. It was found in the monastery at Bobbio in Italy in 1493. See Ellis in the (English) Journal of Philology, v. 265; id. in the Academy, i. 87; and Bährens, De Sulpicia Quae Vocatur Satira (Jena, 1873). It is generally appended to the editions of Juvenal and Persius.