Parentalia XIX. — Namia Pudentilla, my Sister-in-Law

You also, Lady, who think highly of a good name and upright life, speak a word of last farewell to Pudentilla. Well-born, thrifty, and upright, cheerful, modest, and fair, she shared without a break the wedded life of Sanctus. Keeping unstained the praises due to a modest life, she managed her own property, while her lord lived at ease: but for all that she did not taunt her husband nor look black upon him because he left a woman to manage the whole house alone. Alas! Too young, yet happy that her husband and her son still lived, she met her final doom and died. She was of one heart and one in blood with my Sabina, and by me was she called sister unreproved. Now also my loving thoughts busy themselves with her peaceful shade, and voice these words of tribute to my Pudentilla.