Word: ferryã
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...lament addressed to Horace’s friend and fellow poet Virgil over the death of their friend, the respected scholar Quintilian. In Latin, the poem has Horace’s characteristic untranslatable syntactic gymnastics; but it is also a gripping dialectic on the nature of loss and mourning. Ferry??€™s reading preserved the intense emotional experience of the poet, even as Horace’s linguistic virtuosity was transformed by Ferry??€™s vastly different, more conversational diction...
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