Catullus 85
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Catullus 85 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus for his mistress Lesbia.
- "Odi et (od et) amo. quare id (quar id) faciam, fortasse requiris?
- nescio, sed fieri sentio et (senti 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 being 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[edit]
- "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.