Project Passage 2

Amplissima subsidia fugae meae prestitisti. Ornamentis vitam meam instruxisti, cum omne aurum margaritaque corpori tuo detracta tradidisti mihi —- et subinde familia, nummis, fructibus, callide deceptis adversariorum custodibus, absentiam meam locupletasti.

You showed very abundant aids to my flight. You provided my life with the things I needed, when you handed down to me all your gold and pearls, having been taken off of your body — and you repeatedly enriched my absence with my household, coins, [and] provisions, with the guards of my enemies having been cleverly deceived. 

Pro vita rogabas absentis — quod ut conarere virtus tua te hortabatur. Verbis tuis victa me munibat clementia eorum, contra quos ea parabas. Semper tamen vox tua est firmitate animi emissa.

You were asking for the life [of me], absent — because your valor was encouraging you to try. The mercy of these people having been conquered by your words, against whom you were preparing these things, was strengthening me. Nevertheless, your voice has always been set out with the strength of your mind.

Interea agmen ex repertis hominibus a Milone, cuius domus emptione potitus eram cum esset exsul, belli civilis occasionibus irrupturum et direpturum prospere reiecisti et defendisti domum nostram.

Meanwhile, you drove back a line from people, having been by Milo, whose home I had obtained by purchase while he was an exile, about to break in and happily plunder [our home] because of the opportunities of civil war, and you defended our home. 

Summary

The Laudatio Turiae is a funerary inscription where a husband, presumably a man named Quintus Lucretius Vespillo, praises his wife called Turia for her loyalty and bravery. She displays the Roman value of pietas when helping him during the Roman civil wars, as he was on the losing side of Pompey, and overall her husband portrays her as the perfect Roman wife. At the beginning, he explains how she gave up her gold and jewelry and secretly sent him money and supplies while he was in hiding. In the middle, he describes how she bravely asked for mercy for her husband, compelling others to spare his life and eventually free him from exile, showing her courage and determination. At the end, he explains how, during the chaos of the war, she defended their home from attackers gathered by Milo, who had previously owned the house but was now in exile, proving her strength and dedication to her husband once again.

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