462. Schol. Vall, _ad Iuv._ vi. 537, unde ait Sulpicia: si me cadurcis dissolutis fasciis nudam Caleno concubantem proferat. 463. Mart. x. 38. 9: vixisti tribus, o Calene, lustris: aetas haec tibi tota computatur et solos numeras dies mariti. The first edition of Martial, Book x, was probably published in 95 A.D. If Sulpicia married Calenus at the age of 18-25, her birth will therefore fall between 55 and 62 A. D. 464. Cp. Mart. x. 38. 4-8. 465. Cp. Mart. x. 38. 9-11. It is, of course, possible that _mariti_ is a euphemism. 466. Mart. x. 35. 1. 467. See Ap. Sid. loc. cit. 468. Sulp. _Sat._, lines 4, 5. 469. _Raph. Volaterr. comment. urban._ (fol. lvi. 1506 A.D.), 'hic (sc. at Bobbio) anno 1493 huiuscemodi libri reperti sunt. Rutilius Namatianus. Heroicum Sulpici carmen.' The first edition was published in 1498, with the title _Sulpitiae carmina quae fuit Domitiani temporibus: nuper a Georgio Merula Allexandrino, cum aliis opusculis reperta. queritur de statu reipublicae et temporibus Domitiani_. The MS. is now lost. 470. Cp. line 62. Domitian's edict seems to have threatened the security of Calenus. In the lines which follow, Domitian's death and overthrow are foretold. The poem, therefore, if genuine, must have been published soon after Domitian's assassination in 96, though it may have been composed in part during his lifetime. 471. The work is generally rejected as spurious. Bachrens (_P. L. M._ v. p. 93, and _de Sulpiciae quae vocatur satira_, Jena, 1873) holds that the work is contemporary with Ausonius. Boot (_de Sulpiciae quae fertur satira_, Amsterdam, 1868) goes further, and regards the work as a renaissance forgery. He is followed by Bücheler. But there is no reason to doubt the existence of the Bobbian MS. The metrical difficulties can be remedied by emendation _palare_ for _palari_ (43) is a solecism, but many verbs are found in both active and deponent forms, and _palare_ may be a slip, or even an invention by analogy. _captiva_ (52) does not = the Italian _cattiva_ or the French _chétive_. The most that we can say is that the work shows no resemblance to any extant contemporary literature. That does not necessarily prove it to be of later date. The problem cannot be answered with certainty. On the whole, to us the difficulty of supposing it to be a late forgery seems greater than the difficulty of supposing it to be by Sulpicia. 472. An exception must be made of the _Silvae_ of Statius. 473. Or Balbus Setinus. 474. Schenkl, _Stud, zu V. F._ 272. 475. Mart. i. 61 and 76. 476. i. 5: Phoebe mone, si Cymaeae mihi conscia vatis stat casta cortina domo. In _Cymaeae vatis_ there is an allusion to the custody of the Sibylline books. 477. x, 1. 90. 478. i. 7-12. 479. i. 13, 14: Solymo nigrantem pulvere fratrem spargentemque faces et in omni turre furentem. Domitian pretended to be a poet and connoisseur of poetry. See p. 167. 480. iii. 207: