Quintus Lucretius Vespillo
Quintus Lucretius Vespillo was a Roman
senator and consul, whose career commenced during the late Roman Republic and concluded in the reign of emperor Augustus
.
He was in the past believed to be the author of the Laudatio Turiae, a tombstone engraved with an epitaph in the form of a husband's eulogy for his wife,[1] but this is rejected by modern scholars.[2]
See also
- List of Roman Consuls
Footnotes
- ^ Private Lives and Public Personae University of Tennessee
- ISBN 0-19-866172-X.
...has traditionally been assigned to this Turia, but this is now generally rejected and there are no good arguments for the identification.
References
- Cicero, Brutus 48
- Julius Caesar Commentarii de Bello Civili iii 7
- Appian B.C. iv 44
- Valerius Maximus vi. 7.2
- Dio Cassiusliv 10