AP Project passage #2 is an excerpt from the longest surviving personal Latin inscription, written by a husband (mostly likely Quintus Lucretius Vespillo) for his deceased wife Turia. The inscription dates from the 1st Century B.C., during the tumultuous times of Augustus’ rise to power.

Given the period of its composition (late Republican Rome) and its genre (funerary oration / inscription), the prose is fairly straightforward and uncomplex (in much the same ways Pliny’s letters to Calpurnia are), though I’m sure my students are going to find the vocabulary a bit thorny. Most of this tiered reader focuses on repetition of vocabulary through extensive reading, more that breaking down complex syntax.

Also, I plan on introducing this project passage along with Pliny’s Letters to Calpurnia (6.4 and 6.7) .

Without any further ado, here’s the tiered passages for AP Project Passage #2, excerpts from the Laudatio Turiae: