Usually means: Sadness, melancholy expressed in poetry.
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  2. Tristia (Berlioz), Tristia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wikipedia (Tristia)

noun:  The ("Sad things" or "Sorrows") a collection of poems written in elegiac couplets by the Augustan poet Ovid during the first three years following his banishment from Rome to Tomis on the Black Sea in AD 8.
noun:  Tristia, Op. 18, is a musical work consisting of three short pieces for chorus and orchestra by the French composer Hector Berlioz.
noun:  a work of poetry written by the Roman poet Ovid at some time after he was banished from Rome in AD 8.


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