Sulpicia

Sulpicia was the name of two Roman poets.

1.The earlier Sulpicia lived in the reign of Augustus, and was the daughter of Servius Sulpicius Rufusa and a a niece of Messalla, the statesman and patron of literature. Her verses, which were preserved with those of Tibullus and were for long attributed to him, are six elegiac poems addressed to a lover called Cerinthus, possibly the Cornutus addressed by Tibullus in two of his Elegies (bk. ii., 2 and 3; see Schanz, Gesch. d. röm. Litt. § 284; F Plessis, La Poésie latine, pp. 376-377 and references there given).