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Odi et Amo — Carmen LXXXV

Catullus· 84 BCE – 54 BCE· Roman· 60 BCE

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Odi et Amo — Carmen LXXXV

Catullus

I hate and I love. How this can be, you ask?

I know not, but I feel it, and I am in agony.

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c. 60 BC. Translation by Richard Francis Burton, 1894. · Translated by Richard Francis Burton

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