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الملخص EN

This paper deals with the subject of lamentations for birds in Latin poetry in the Latin poetry.

Specifically, it studies Catullus' c.

2, 3, Ovid's Am.

II.6, and Statius' Silv.

II.4.

Laments for Pets, birds, animals, insects, are a common theme of literature from the Hellenistic period and forward; we find such typical themes in the funerary poetry for beloved ones, as well as animals, birds, and insects that affected the Latin poets in their lamentation for dead pets.

Most Latin authors draw theses motifs from the seventh book of the Palatine Anthology, which comprises epitaphs for pets (Anth.

Pal.

VII.189-216), as well as the material that they draw from their ancestors.

Contrary to Palatine Anthology, dead birds in the poems of three Latin authors, Catullus, Ovid and Statius, are agents of meta-poetic concepts. 
Moreover, the Roman poets modified the traditional topics and ideas of laments in their texts.

Consequently, added symbolic or meta-poetic connotations to these ideas and in this way, they were able to speak through meta-poetic symbols on the death and decay of literary genres as well as their ancestors, and their anxieties about the reception of their works. 
Hence, this paper aims to shed light on the re-adaption and modification of the Hellenistic literary genre of lamentation on the death of pets in the parallel lamentations for dead birds written by our three poets.

In the end, the meta-poetic ideas are analyzed and the topics on which each poet focuses are emphasized.