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Liv Reads Ovid: The Metamorphoses Book XI

Let's Talk About Myths, Baby! | Greek Mythology & the Ancient Mediterranean

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The Ghost of My Dead Husband

"She awoke from sleep and first looked all about her to persuade herself that he whom she had lately seen must yet be with her for she had aroused the servants who in haste brought lights desired. When she could find him nowhere in despair she struck her face and tore her garment from her breast and beat her breast with morning hands" "To her nurse who asked the cause of her wild grief she cried alas halcyon is no more no more with her own cakes she is dead is dead away with words of comfort he is lost by shipwreck i have seen him and i knew him surely as a ghostHe came to me and when desirous to detain him i stretched forth my arms to

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