About this edition

A complete edition of the surviving works of Sulpicia, daughter of Servius (fl. c. 20 BC), translated in a single voice with the Latin alongside.

What's here

The complete surviving Sulpicia — six short elegies, some forty lines in all, preserved as poems 13 through 18 of the third book of the Tibullan corpus and cited [Tibullus] 3.13–18 — translated from the Latin. Each poem carries the Latin facing the English and belongs to a single headnote that sets her among the only women poets of Rome. She is the one whose verse actually came down to us: a real woman of the senatorial class writing her own desire in the first person, not a literary pose.

From the Latin

Every translation was produced by reading the Latin text directly, not by copying or adapting any prior edition. The Latin comes from open scholarly sources.

How to use this

The Works index opens the six elegies; they read in sequence with the Latin parallel a toggle away. Follow any name — Cerinthus, Messalla, the Camenae — into the glossary, which lists every poem it appears in, and use the facing Latin to check a charged line (pudor, fama, digna) against the original. Every section has a stable number you can cite.

Citation and reuse

The translation, the headnotes, and the editorial apparatus are released under CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 — share and adapt with attribution, non-commercial use only, derivatives under the same licence.

Status

1 work translated in this language.