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                <ab><lg met="dactylic.hexameter">
<l met="dactylic.hexameter"><lb n="1"/>Manet hic iuvenis pia mater.</l></lg></ab>
<ab type="praescriptum"><expan><abbr>D</abbr><ex>is</ex></expan> <expan><abbr>M</abbr><ex>anibus</ex></expan> <lb n="2"/>et memoriae <hi rend="ligature">Va</hi><lb n="3" break="no"/>riae Restitutae.
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<ab><lg met="iambo-trochaic.rhythm">
<l met="iambo-trochaic.rhythm"><lb n="4"/><choice><reg>Ave</reg><orig>Have</orig></choice> mihi dul<lb n="5" break="no"/>cissimum no<hi rend="ligature">men</hi>, <lb n="6"/>Varia</l>
<l met="iambo-trochaic.rhythm">Restituta, <lb n="7"/>coniunx mihi <lb n="8"/>quondam <choice><reg>carissima</reg><orig>karis<lb n="9" break="no"/>sima</orig></choice></l>
<l met="iambo-trochaic.rhythm"><expan><abbr>meiq</abbr><ex>ue</ex></expan> aman<lb n="10" break="no"/>tissima, rari et m<unclear>i</unclear><lb n="11" break="no"/>rae exempli, <choice><reg>illibatae</reg><orig>inli<lb n="12" break="no"/>batae</orig></choice></l>
<l met="iambo-trochaic.rhythm">casti<add place="above">ta</add>tis ab<lb n="13" break="no"/>stinentissimae <lb n="14"/>feminae, cuius</l>
<l met="iambo-trochaic.rhythm">me<lb n="15" break="no"/>moria post obi<lb n="16" break="no"/>tum vivet. Vixit <lb n="17"/><expan><abbr>an</abbr><ex>nis</ex></expan></l>
<l met="iambo-trochaic.rhythm"><num value="26">XXVI</num>, <expan><abbr>m</abbr><ex>ensibus</ex></expan> <num value="5">V</num>, <expan><abbr>d</abbr><ex>iebus</ex></expan> <num value="20">XX</num>.</l>
<l met="iambo-trochaic.rhythm"><lb n="18"/>Vale nimium cito.</l></lg></ab>
<ab type="postscriptum"><expan><abbr>T</abbr><ex>itus</ex></expan> <hi rend="ligature">Va</hi><lb n="19" break="no"/>rius Myrismus mari<lb n="20" break="no"/>tus, <expan><am>I<hi rend="supraline">IIII</hi>Ivir</am><ex>sevir</ex></expan> <expan><abbr>Aug</abbr><ex>ustalis</ex></expan> <expan><abbr>Lug</abbr><ex>uduni</ex></expan>, <lb n="21"/>et sibi vivus <expan><abbr>fec</abbr><ex>it</ex></expan>.
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                <p>Text follows Férnandez Martínez and Limón Belén. Picture checked by Spalla 2025.
l. 1: Manet hic iuvenis pia mater, hexameter ending (Fernández Martínez and Limón Belén); inscribed within D(is) M(anibus).</p>
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                <p>Here lies a young and devoted mother. To the Manes and to the memory of Varia Restituta.

Farewell, Varia Restituta, a most charming name to me, once my dearest and much beloved wife, a woman of rare and extraordinary nature, of pure chastity, of utmost modesty, whose memory lives on after her death. She lived twenty-six years, five months and twenty days. Farewell way too soon.

Titus Varius Myrismus, her husband, sevir Augustalis of Lugdunum, made this while still alive also for himself.</p>
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                <p>Aquí descansa una joven y piadosa madre. A los dioses Manes y a la memoria de Varia Restituta. Te saludo, nombre queridísimo para mí, Varia Restituta, en otro tiempo mi que-ridísima y amantísima esposa, a una mujer admirable y de singular ejemplo, de inmaculada castidad, modesta, cuya memoria vivirá tras su muerte. Vivió 26 años, 5 meses y 20 días. ¡Adiós demasiado prematuramente! Tito Vario Myrismo, su marido, séviro augustal en Lyon, en vida lo hizo también para sí mismo.</p>
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                <p>Dating proposed by Reynaud and Helly and Le Glay.</p>
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                    <bibl>J. Reynaud, B. Helly et al., Nouvelles inscriptions de Lyon, Gallia 40, 1 (1982), 135-138, no. 4 (with photo, 136, fig. 7) - AE 1982</bibl>
                    <bibl>AE 1982, 00705</bibl>
                    <bibl>A. Le Mer, C. Chomer, Carte archéologique de la Gaule 69.2: Lyon, Paris 2007, 656-657.</bibl>
                    <bibl>P. Cugusi, M. Sblendorio Cugusi, Carmina latina epigraphica non-Bücheleriani delle Galliae, Cesena 2019, 71-72, no. 72.</bibl>
                    <bibl>C. Fernández Martínez, M. Limón Belén, Edición y comentario de tres inscripciones ¿en verso? lugdunenses. Problemas de catalogación y descatalogación, SEBarc  20 (2022), 159-162 (with Spanish translation and photos, 160-162, figs. 4-6)</bibl>
                    <bibl>https://institucional.us.es/cleo/index.php/inscripcion/l0021/?lang=en | CLEO L021 (with Spanish translation)</bibl>
                    <bibl>https://edcs.hist.uzh.ch/monument/08600503 | EDCS-08600503</bibl>
                    <bibl>https://edh.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/edh/inschrift/HD000435 | HD000435</bibl>
                    
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