Catullus 85

Love and hate

by Catullus

If ever one of Catullus’s poems ever spoke for itself, it is this little masterpiece about the entanglement of love and hate.

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Odi et amo. quare id faciam fortasse requiris?
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

I hate and I love. Why do I, perhaps you ask? I don’t know, but I feel it happening and I am in torment.

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More Poems by Catullus

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  2. Catullus’s farewell to his brother
  3. Lugete, o Veneres Cupidinesque
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  5. A fashionable conversation
  6. The wayfaring bedstead
  7. Phaselus ille
  8. Constructive criticism welcome
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  12. Catullus to Ipsitilla
  13. How many kisses
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