Quintus Sulpicius Camerinus was a

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senator and

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, who served as

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in AD 9 as the colleague of Gaius Poppaeus Sabinus. He is particularly remembered for his poem about the capture of Troy by

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wrote about him in ''Ponto memoravit''.Der Neue Pauly, Stuttgardiae 1999, T. 11, c. 1103 He is a member of the '' gens Sulpicia''.

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