A Roman husband's funeral inscription says relatives tried to void his wife's father's will after her parents were murdered, and she stopped them

The Laudatio Turiae is a long funeral eulogy carved in stone by a Roman husband for his wife, dated about 8 to 2 BC. Neither is named in the surviving text. It is catalogued as CIL VI 1527. The husband says her parents "were murdered together in the solitude of the countryside" just before the wedding, and she pressed for their killers to be punished. Then relatives tried to take the estate. They argued that her father's will had been made void by a coemptio, a form of marriage, with his wife. If that were accepted, she and her sister would lose their shares. She held that the will "had not in fact been broken." She said she would defend her father's written word, and that the claimants had no right to act because they did not belong to the same gens. She offered to share the estate with her sister if she lost. The claimants "gave way" and dropped the case. Later, when her husband was in danger in the proscriptions, she hid him and petitioned Lepidus for his recall, and Lepidus had her dragged away. The marriage lasted 40 years. They had no children. She offered him a divorce so he could have children with another wife. He refused.