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]

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  1. ^ Private Lives and Public Personae University of Tennessee
  2. ^ Badian, Ernst (1996). Hornblower, Simon; Spawforth, Antony (eds.). Oxford Classical Dictionary (3rd ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 822. 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.

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Political offices Preceded byMarcus Appuleius,and Publius Silius Nervaas Ordinary consuls Suffect consul of the Roman Empire 19 BCwith Gaius Sentius Saturninus,followed by Marcus Vinicius Succeeded byPublius Cornelius Lentulus Marcellinus,and Gnaeus Cornelius Lentulusas Ordinary consuls
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