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<lb n="2"/>et memoriae ae
<lb n="3" break="no"/>ternae Claudiae
<lb n="4"/>Felicitatis co<supplied reason="omitted">n</supplied>iu
<lb n="5" break="no"/>gis sanctissimae
<lb n="6"/>et <hi rend="tall">i</hi>ncomparabili,
<lb n="7"/>quae vixit cum <unclear>eo</unclear>
<lb n="8"/>a<hi rend="ligature">nn</hi>is <num value="6">VI</num>, mensibus <num value="5">V</num>,
<lb n="9"/>diebus <num value="15">XV</num>, Messori
<lb n="10" break="no"/>us Florus, vetera
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ll. 12-18: regular hexameters, CLE.</p>
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                <p>Messorius Florus, veteran of the first legion Minervia Pia Fidelis, dedicated this monument to the Manes and to the eternal memory of Claudia Felicitas, a most venerable and incomparable wife, who lived with him for six years, five months and fifteen days.

I beg you, my friends, to joyfully adorn with flowers this epitaph which I made for my dear wife and for myself while still alive, and Florus too.

He took care to arrange this and dedicated it under the ascia.</p>
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                <p>Aux dieux Mânes et à la mémoire éternelle de Claudia, épouse très vertueuse et incomparable, qui a vécu avec son mari Messorius Florus, vétéran de la légion 1re Minervia Pia Fidelis, six ans, cinq mois et quinze jours. Amis, ornez, je vous prie, cette épitaphe, que j&#39;ai faite pour mon épouse chérie et pour moi-même de mon vivant, et couvrez gaîment de fleurs Florus, qui a élevé et dédié sous l&#39;ascia ce tombeau.</p>
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            <div type="translation" xml:lang="German" resp="G. Walser">
                <p>Den Manen und dem ewigen Andenken an Claudia Felicitas, der tugendhaftesten und unvergleichlichen Gattin, welche mit mir 6 Jahre, 5 Monate und 15 Tage gelebt hat, Messorius Florus, Veteran aus der Legio I Minervia Pia Fidelis. Diesen Grabstein, den ich für meine liebe Gattin und für mich zu Lebzeiten aufgestellt habe, wollet, so bitte ich, ihr Freunde, mit Blumen und Blüten schmücken voll Heiterkeit. Er hat den Stein aufstellen lassen und unter der Axt geweiht.</p>
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            <div type="translation" xml:lang="Spanish" resp="C. Fernández Martínez, 1999">
                <p>Yo, Mesorio Floro, soldado veterano de la primera legión M(inervia) Pía Fiel, que hice esta inscripción para mi querida esposa y para mí, en vida, os ruego, amigos complacientes, que adornéis a Floro con flores Se preocupó él de que la pusieran y la dedicó antes de acabar el monumento.</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 Claudia Felicidad, esposa muy santa e incomparable, que vivió con él 6 años, 5 meses y 15 días, Mesorio Floro, veterano de la Legión I Minervia Pia Fidelis. Este epitafio que compuse para mi querida esposa y para mí, en vida, os ruego amigos que alegremente lo decoréis, y también a mí, Floro con flores. Se ocupó de que se erigiera y lo dedicó bajo el ascia.</p>
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                <p>Dating proposed by Fernández Martínez (CLEO).</p>
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            <div type="bibliography">
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                    <bibl>CLE 01594</bibl>
                    <bibl>CIL 13, 01849</bibl>
                    <bibl>A. Allmer, Revue épigraphique. Inscriptions 588 à 595, Rev. Ep. 2, 38 (1886), 183-185, no. 592 (with French translation)</bibl>
                    <bibl>A. Allmer, Catalogue sommaire des musées de la ville de Lyon, Lyon 1887, 101, no. 43.</bibl>
                    <bibl>A. Allmer, P. Dissard, Musée de Lyon. Inscriptions antiques, Vol. 1, Lyon 1888, 280-283, no. 55 (with French translation)</bibl>
                    <bibl>J. Cholodniak, Carmina sepulcralia latina epigraphica, Petersburg 1904, 107, no. 289c.</bibl>
                    <bibl>G. Walser, Römische Inschrift-Kunst. Römische Inschriften für den akademischen Unterricht und als Einführung in die lateinische Epigraphik, Stuttgart 1988, 274-275, no. 124 (with German translation and photo)</bibl>
                    <bibl>C. Fernández Martínez, Poesía epigráfica latina II, Madrid 1999, 204-204, no. 1594 (Spanish translation of ll. 9-19)</bibl>
                    <bibl>C. Fernández Martínez, Ritmos métricos accidentales o locuciones idiomáticas en inscripciones galas consideradas como carmina (CIL, XIII, 1983, 1972, 2073, 2216, 1849), Rev. Philol. 94, 1 (2020), 95-98, nr. 5 (with Spanish translation and photo, 96, fig. 5)</bibl>
                    <bibl>https://institucional.us.es/cleo/index.php/inscripcion/l009-cil-xiii-1849/?lang=en | CLEO L009</bibl>
                    <bibl>https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/10500804 | EDCS-10500804</bibl>
                    
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