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   Will Dockery to All   
   Re: "Metamorpheses" -Ovid   
   20 Dec 25 16:53:56   
   
   From: user3274@newsgrouper.org.invalid   
      
   mpsilvertone@yahoo-dot-com.no-spam.invalid (HarryLime) posted:   
      
   > > WillDockery wrote:   
   > > And, as mentioned earlier, one of the greatest Rolling Stones albums,   
   released in the Summer of 1975 at the height of my Stones fandom, was   
   "Metamorphosis":   
   > >   
   > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metamorphosis_(Rolling_Stones_album)   
   > >   
   > > So I can see how the confusion comes in, with so many relatively recent   
   works using that spelling for a title.   
   >   
   > OMFG! It isn't a matter of spelling, Donkey.  One is the singular form, the   
   other is the plural.   
   >   
   > One metamorphosis, two metamorphoses.   
   >   
   > Ovid wrote about numerous metamorphoses, hence the plural form.   
      
   Okay, I get it now, thanks.   
      
   > This is a response to the post seen at:   
   > http://www.jlaforums.com/viewtopic.php?p=660806569#660806569   
      
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