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Catullus 85

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Catullus 85 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus for his mistress Lesbia.

"Odi et amo. quare id faciam fortasse requiris?nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.'" I hate and I love. Why I do this, perhaps you ask?I do not know, but I feel it happening and I am tortured.

Its declaration of conflicting feelings "I hate and I love" (in Latin, Odi et amo) is renowned for its force and brevity.

The meter of the poem is the elegiac couplet.

Musical settings

  • "Odi et amo" No. 19 of "Moralia" by composer Jacobus Gallus
  • "Odi et amo" part of Catulli Carmina by composer Carl Orff
  • Odi et amo by composer Jóhann Jóhannsson off the album Englabörn.

    • References

    Catullus 85 Wikipedia
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