Ancient World

Laudatio Turiae

The laudatio Turiae (CIL VI, 41062; ILS 8393) is the modern name for a Latin inscription of the Roman Empire recording a speech given in the late 1st century BC – modern dates range between 9 and 6 BC – by an upper class Roman husband in eulogy of his wife. The speech details the matronal qualities of the wife, her perseverance in the aftermath of her family's death, how she saved the husband during the triumviral proscriptions of the late Republic, and their marriage. The speech was not necessarily given in public but was inscribed and put up around Rome. Traditionally, following Theodor Mommsen, the deceased wife has been identified as Turia, the wife of the Quintus Lucretius Vespillo who was consul in 19 BC. This identification, however, is no longer widely accepted for lack of corroborating evidence.

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• ▸Al-Walaja
• ▸Company of the Wolf
• ▸Laudatio Turiae

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