Sulpicia

Sulpicia was a Roman woman poet of the Augustan age, active in the late 1st century BCE. She is the only female Latin poet from antiquity whose verse survives under her own name: a short cycle of elegiac poems transmitted within the corpus of Tibullus (Book 3), describing her love for a man she calls Cerinthus. She appears to have belonged to an aristocratic family connected to the literary patron Messalla Corvinus, in whose circle she moved. Her brief, intensely personal elegies are prized as a rare first-person female voice in Roman love poetry.