Rereading this a couple of days later (the ichor hypothesis is just, wow) and caught this:
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| "MY favorite Ovid translations has the muses vs a group of nymphs doing a rap battle in meter" |
…that's amazing, if you remember the translation I'd love to check it out! 😁
The highlight of mine was Latreus trash-talking Caeneus—"Caeneus, you bitch!"—making a pun on his original sex and name, Caenis. (I never studied Latin, just had a very long commute, so unsure how big a liberty the translator took.)