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   Message 43,847 of 45,517   
   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: "Metamorphoses" -Ovid   
   20 Dec 25 16:13:17   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   Peter J Ross  posted:   
      
   > On 2022-12-19, jdcha...@gmail.com  wrote:   
   >   
   > >   
   > >       https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-lHkIhPlQew   
   >   
   > I prefer Golding, but not even Golding is as good as the original. And   
   > even the original doesn't stand up as well to repeated readings as   
   > Virgil or Lucretius.   
   >   
   > Or, to put it in your own language:   
   >   
   > O prafur Gildung, bat nyt ivon Guldang us os guud ys thi urogonel.   
      
   I Googled it, here's Golding:   
      
   https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Metamorphoses_(tr._Golding)   
      
   HTH and HAND.   
      
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