ABSTRACT
In the following funeral speech, which was later engraved on a memorial tablet, a Roman man of the first century B.C. pays tribute to his wife. She is traditionally known as Turia, but their actual identities are unknown. Source: Erik Wistrand, The So-Called Laudatio Turiae: Introduction, Text, Translation, Commentary, Studia Graeca et Latina Gothoburgensia, XXXIV (Goteborg: Acta Universitatis Gothoburgensis, 1976).
