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Review: October 11, 2020. (Reviewed version).

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Did you know... that a hostile review of Uncle Tom's Cabin likened the book to a witch from Horace's Epodes?

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This article rightly deserves GA status. It covers the important things admirably. But this sentence is unclear to me: "In these poems, Callimachus presented a toned-down version of the archaic iambus." Could it be expanded? Kanjuzi (talk) 10:16, 7 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thank you for pointing this out, Kanjuzi. The point is that Callimachus wrote iambs that weren't as strikingly aggressive as those of the archaic iambographers. I will try to find a new, more precise wording. Modussiccandi (talk) 10:39, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

That would be very useful. What wasn't clear whether the sentence is referring to the subject matter of Callimachus's poems or the metrical technique. Although now I see that you mean the former. Kanjuzi (talk) 10:43, 9 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]