Wednesday, January 16th, 2013...7:46 pmChris Francese
I Hate and I Love (Catullus 85)
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Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
C.H. Sisson (1967):
I hate and I love. You may well ask, why I do so.
I do not know, but I feel it and suffer.
Horace Gregory (1956):
I HATE and love.
And if you ask me why,
I have no answer, but I discern,
can feel, my senses rooted in eternal torture.
Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish (1979):
I hate and I love. Why do that? Good question.
No answer, save ‘I do’. Nailed, through either hand.
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June 28th, 2014 at 2:58 pm
[…] I don’t know but I feel it and suffer. — Catullus [several translations of Odi Et Amo here: http://blogs.dickinson.edu/latin-poetry-podcast/2013/01/16/i-hate-and-i-love-catullus-85/ […]
October 11th, 2014 at 10:04 am
this poetry is amazing i truly love it
October 11th, 2014 at 1:34 pm
Thank you very much for listening, Kayla!
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