Sunday, December 1st, 2019

Catullus and Martial on Unguents

Catullus 13 (text: G.P. Goold, 1983, via PHI) Cenabis bene, mi Fabulle, apud me paucis, si tibi di favent, diebus, si tecum attuleris bonam atque magnam cenam, non sine candida puella et vino et sale et omnibus cachinnis.              5 haec si, inquam, attuleris, venuste noster, cenabis bene: nam tui […]

Wednesday, January 16th, 2013

I Hate and I Love (Catullus 85)

Catullus 85 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 […]