[12] By contrast with the male love poets of ancient Rome, however, Sulpicia portrays her desire only within the context of her marriage.
[14] The text quoted by Valla is attributed to "Sulpicius", and was first identified as a fragment of Sulpicia by the 16th-century scholar Pierre Pithou based on the mention of Calenus.
[16] The text transmitted by Valla is corrupt[e] and the meaning continues to be debated, though the lines apparently come from one of the erotic poems about Calenus that are mentioned by Martial.
[17] si me cadurci restitutis fasciis nudam Caleno concubantem proferat If [something] reveals me lying naked with Calenus when the linen bed-girth has been restored[17] A seventy-line hexameter poem on the expulsion from Rome of Greek philosophers by Domitian was for a long time attributed to Sulpicia.
[20] In 1868, J. C. G. Boot [nl] argued that the poem was a 15th-century composition; in 1873 Emil Baehrens was the first to suggest it was a work of late antiquity.
[2] The only information about Sulpicia that the Conquestio adds to that transmitted by Martial is the mention of three metres that she wrote in:[22] hendecasyllables, iambic trimeters, and scazons.
[3] Her poetry seems to have continued to be known and well thought of into the fifth century – she is mentioned alongside Plato, Cicero, Martial, and Juvenal by Ausonius and Sidonius Apollinaris.