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  • Ovid and Catullus

    From 22dangelor@mtps.us@21:1/5 to Thomas Bell on Wed Jun 3 07:46:18 2020
    On Saturday, January 16, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Thomas Bell wrote:
    I do not know whether this is the correct place to post such a message, but
    I was wondering if anyone had any views on this statement,
    Catullus is pessimistic in his love poetry, Ovid is optimistic.

    Idk bruh Pyramus and Thisbe doesn't sound too optimistic to me

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  • From Rich Alderson@21:1/5 to 22dangelor@mtps.us on Wed Jun 3 17:21:51 2020
    22dangelor@mtps.us writes:

    On Saturday, January 16, 1999 at 3:00:00 AM UTC-5, Thomas Bell wrote:
    ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

    I do not know whether this is the correct place to post such a message, but I was wondering if anyone had any views on this statement,
    Catullus is pessimistic in his love poetry, Ovid is optimistic.

    Idk bruh Pyramus and Thisbe doesn't sound too optimistic to me

    You're responding to a conversation from more than 20 years ago...

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