Sulpicia (Roman female poet)
Sulpicia lived in the reign of Augustus and she is the only known female poet whose work has survived, Her short poems were addressed to a lover called Cerinthus. Below is one example:
“Cerinthus, do you care that I am sick, my body wracked with fever and fatigue? I cannot hope that I’ll be well again unless I think that that’s what you want too. But if my sickness doesn’t worry you, what good is it to me to be well again? “
Sulpicia: Text, translation, and commentary. Anne Mahoney. 2000. Text created electronically.
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