Words per Minute #9: Catullus on Crucifixion

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam fortasse requires.
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

- Catullus, Poem 85

I hate and love. You wonder, perhaps, why I’d do that?
I have no idea. I just feel it. I am crucified.

(Translation: Peter Green)

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