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. Perhaps you ask why I do this?
- I do not know, but I feel it happen and I am torn apart.
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.
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