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I hate and I love: why I do so you may well ask. I do not know, but I feel it happen and… — Catullus

Poem

I hate and I love: why I do so you may well ask. I do not know, but I feel it happen and am in agony.

In the original Latin

Odi et amo: quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

Catullus
51 BC
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Love and hateDangers of loveLove
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Poem
Time
51 BCClassical antiquity
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Catullus
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Current citation
Cattulus, Gaius Valerius. The Poems of Catullus, translated by Guy Lee. Oxford University Press, 2009, no. 85.
Original citation
Catullus, Gaius Valerius. Carmina. c. 1481, no. 85.

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