A poet with this name wrote that “it's boring / to fit one's face to reputation. / May I be said to be / a worthy lover for a worthy love.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Give this name of a poet who wrote a 70-line “complaint” about the expulsion of philosophers. Another poet with this name wrote a poem that laments “Birthday’s here and I hate it” due to her lover’s absence.
ANSWER: Sulpicia [accept Sulpicia’s Complaint or Sulpiciae Conquestio; prompt on Albius Tibullus by asking “most scholars attribute those poems to a person with what name?”]
[10e] The Augustan Sulpicia likely wrote six poems in this genre published alongside Tibullus’s corpus. Poems in this genre, like Catullus's “Hail and Farewell,” are often mournful.
ANSWER: elegy [or elegies; accept elegiac couplets or elegiac distichs]
[10m] The only fragments fully attributed to the Domitian Sulpicia are two lines quoted by a scholiast on this author. Samuel Johnson’s “The Vanity of Human Wishes” was adapted from this author, who wrote about a “sound mind in a sound body.”
ANSWER: Juvenal [or Decimus Junius Juvenalis]
<Steven Yuan, European Literature>