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   Message 43,868 of 45,517   
   Peter J Ross to Will Dockery   
   Re: "Metamorphoses" -Ovid   
   20 Dec 25 18:17:40   
   
   From: pjr@example.invalid   
      
   On 2025-12-20, Will Dockery  wrote:   
      
   >   
   > 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)   
      
   You ought to bookmark it, in case you ever learn to read.   
      
   --   
   PJR :-)   
      
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