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Originally Posted by Roubles
(...) an Italian female reading Ovid's Orpheus & Eurydice in the original Latin (...)
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You don't necessarily have to be Italian to read a Latin text properly.
Inde per inmensum croceo velatus amictu
aethera digreditur Ciconumque Hymenaeus ad oras
tendit et Orphea nequiquam voce vocatur.
adfuit ille quidem, sed nec sollemnia verba
nec laetos vultus nec felix attulit omen.
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In fact, I could do it myself....... but I'm a man. And I don't know if there is a female Romanic-language speaker here. I think there was a girl from Romania some time ago, but I'm not sure...