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“At last love has come. I would be more ashamed / to hide it in cloth than leave it naked.”
- Sulpicia,
- 1st cent. BCE, in Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, eds., A Book of Women Poets From Antiquity to Now (1980)
“Friends worry about me and are upset that somehow / I might tumble into bed with a nobody.”
- Sulpicia,
- 1st cent. BCE, in Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, eds., A Book of Women Poets From Antiquity to Now (1980)
“Why should I / elude death / if when I am sick, your heart / is calm?”
- Sulpicia,
- 1st cent. BCE, in Aliki Barnstone and Willis Barnstone, eds., A Book of Women Poets From Antiquity to Now (1980)

(1st cent. BCE)