But there is a very strong probability that her name was Turia, and that he was a certain Q. Lucretius Vespillo, who served under Pompeius in Epirus in 48 B.C., whose romantic adventures in the proscriptions of 43 are recorded by Appian, and who eventually became consul under Augustus in 19 B.C.

Both Turia's parents were murdered suddenly and together at their country residenceperhaps, as Mommsen suggested, by their own slaves.

Immediately afterwards Lucretius had to leave with Pompeius' army for Epirus, and Turia was left alone, bereft of both her parents, to do what she could to secure the punishment of the murderers.

One might think that Turia had already had her full share of trouble and danger, but there is much more to come.

To Lepidus Turia had to go, to beg the confirmation of Octavian's grace, and this brutal man received her with insult and injury.

It was this that caused Turia to make a proposal to her husband which, coming from a truly unselfish woman, and seen in the light of Roman ideas of married life, is far from unnatural; but to us it must seem astonishing, and it filled Lucretius with horror.

See Fabulae togatae Tragedy Tributum Triclinia Triumph, a Trofei di Mario Tullia (Cicero's daughter) Tullianum, the Tunica Turia, the story of Tusculum, Cicero's villa at Tutela Tutor Twelve Tables, the Usus Valerius Maximus Varro Varro, Terentius (consul)