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Sulpicia Lepidina was the wife of Flavius Cerialis, prefect of the Ninth Cohort of Batavians, stationed at Vindolanda in Roman Britain in the early 2nd century AD. She is known from her correspondence, including a birthday invitation she received from Claudia Severa.

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Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus Peticus was a Roman senator during the reign of Nero.

Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus was a Roman senator and poet, who served as Consul in AD 9 as the colleague of Gaius Poppaeus Sabinus. He is particularly remembered for his poem about the capture of Troy by Hercules. Ovid wrote about him in Ponto memoravit. He is a member of the gens Sulpicia.

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Sulpicia was an ancient Roman poet who was active during the reign of the emperor Domitian. She is mostly known through two poems of Martial; she is also mentioned by Ausonius, Sidonius Apollinaris, and Fulgentius. A seventy-line hexameter poem and two lines of iambic trimeter attributed to Sulpicia survive; the hexameters are now generally thought to have been a fourth- or fifth-century imitation of Sulpicia. Judging by the ancient references to her and the single surviving couplet of her poetry, Sulpicia wrote love poetry discussing her desire for her husband, and was known for her frank sexuality.

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