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                <ab type="praescriptum">
<div type="textpart" subtype="line" n="Architrave:">
<lb n="1"/><expan><abbr>D</abbr><ex>is</ex></expan> <g type="ascia"></g> <expan><abbr>M</abbr><ex>anibus</ex></expan>
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<lb n="2"/>et memoriae <expan><abbr>aet</abbr><ex>ernae</ex></expan>
<lb n="3"/>Matiae Verae, quae me
<lb n="4" break="no"/>cum <expan><abbr>v<hi rend="tall">i</hi>x</abbr><ex>it</ex></expan> <expan><abbr>a<hi rend="ligature">nn</hi></abbr><ex>os</ex></expan> <num value="36">XXXVI</num>, <expan><abbr>m</abbr><ex>enses</ex></expan> <num value="3">III</num>,
<lb n="5"/><expan><abbr>d</abbr><ex>ies</ex></expan> <num value="10">X</num>, sine ulla nimi laesio
<lb n="6" break="no"/>ne.</div></ab> <ab><lg met="dactylic.hexameter"><l met="dactylic.hexameter">Longus amor per<supplied reason="omitted">i</supplied><hi rend="ligature">it</hi>, direp<lb n="7" break="no"/>ta mor<hi rend="ligature">te</hi> <expan><abbr>recept</abbr><ex>a</ex></expan>.</l>
<l met="dactylic.hexameter" ana="nonstandard">Utinam nos <lb n="8"/>fatus texiss<hi rend="ligature">et</hi> utrosque.</l> <g type="hedera"></g>
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<ab type="postscriptum">
<lb n="9"/><expan><abbr>Pusi<hi rend="ligature">nn</hi>on</abbr><ex>ius</ex></expan> Dubitatus <expan><abbr>con
<lb n="10" break="no"/>iug</abbr><ex>i</ex></expan> <expan><abbr>incomparab</abbr><ex>ili</ex></expan>, de qua ni
<lb n="11"/><supplied reason="lost">h</supplied>il dolui nisi mortem,
<lb n="12"/><supplied reason="lost"><expan><abbr>p</abbr><ex>onendum</ex></expan></supplied> <expan><abbr>c</abbr><ex>uravit</ex></expan> et sub ascia dedic<hi rend="ligature">av</hi><hi rend="ligature">it</hi>.</ab>
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                <p>Text follows CIL and CLE. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.
ll. 6-7: Longus amor periit direptus a morte, Allmer and Dissard.
ll. 7-8: truncated hexameter. [coniuge] nos utinam, CLE. [una] nos utinam fatus texisset utrosque, CIL.</p>
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                <p>Architrave:
To the Manes

and to the eternal memory of Matia Vera, who lived by my side for thirty-six years, three months and ten days, without causing pain to my heart.

A long-lasting love has perished, she was snatched away by sudden death. If only fate had buried us together!

Posinnonius Dubitatus took care to arrange this monument and dedicated it under the ascia, to his incomparable wife, whom I never grieved for, except for her death.</p>
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            <div type="translation" xml:lang="French " resp="A. Allmer, P. Dissard">
                <p>Aux dieux Mânes et à la mémoire éternelle de Matia Vera, qui a vécu avec moi trente-six ans, trois mois et dix jours, sans m&#39;avoir jamais fait aucune peine. Notre long amour a péri brisé par la mort. Plût aux dieux que le destin que tu as subi nous eût couchés tous les deux en même temps dans la tombe! Pusinnonius Dubitatus à mon épouse incomparable, de qui je n&#39;ai jamais reçu d&#39;autre chagrin que celui de sa mort, ai élevé ce tombeau et l&#39;ai dédié sous l&#39;ascia.</p>
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            <div type="translation" xml:lang="Spanish" resp="C. Fernández Martínez, 1998">
                <p>Un prolongado amor ha perecido. Me la quitaron al sobrevenirle la muerte. ¡Ojalá el destino nos hubiese enterrado a ambos!</p>
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            <div type="translation" xml:lang="Spanish" resp="C. Fernández Martínez, 2020">
                <p>A los dioses Manes y a la memoria eterna de Macia Vera, que vivió conmigo 36 años, 3 meses y 10 días sin causar ningún pesar a mi alma. Un prolongado amor ha perecido, tras haber sido arrebatada por una muerte sobrevenida. ¡Ojalá el destino nos hubiese enterrado juntos a ambos! Pusinonio Dubitato para su esposa incomparable -por cuya causa nada sufrí salvo por su muerte- se ocupó de que se hiciera y la dedicó bajo el ascia.</p>
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            <div type="commentary">
                <p>Dating proposed by Allmer and Dissard.</p>
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            <div type="bibliography">
                <listBibl>
                    <bibl>CLE 00444</bibl>
                    <bibl>CIL 13, 02205</bibl>
                    <bibl>A. Allmer, P. Dissard, Musée de Lyon. Inscriptions antiques, Vol. 3, Lyon 1890, 315-318, no. 346 (with French translation)</bibl>
                    <bibl>J. Cholodniak, Carmina sepulcralia latina epigraphica, Petersburg 1904, 109, no. 289h.</bibl>
                    <bibl>C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina I, Madrid 1998, 250-251, no. 444 (Spanish translation of the hexameters)</bibl>
                    <bibl>A. Le Mer, C. Chomer, Carte archéologique de la Gaule 69.2: Lyon, Paris 2007, 609.</bibl>
                    <bibl>C. Fernández Martínez, CLE 444 o la intachable vida de Macia Vera. In: M. Limón Belén (ed.), C. Fernández Martínez (ed.), Sub Ascia. Estudios sobre Carmina Latina Epigraphica, Seville 2020, 379-392 (with Spanish translation and photos, 381-382, figs. 1-3) - AE 2020</bibl>
                    <bibl>AE 2020, 0005</bibl>
                    <bibl>https://institucional.us.es/cleo/index.php/inscripcion/l013-cil-xiii-2205/?lang=en | CLEO L013</bibl>
                    <bibl>https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/10501162 | EDCS-10501162</bibl>
                    <bibl>https://www.mqdq.it/textsce/CE|ce|0444 | MQDQ</bibl>
                    
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