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)
Tags: Catallus
This entry was posted on Thursday, October 2nd, 2008 at 3:23 pm and is filed under wordsperminute.
You can follow any comments to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
You can leave a comment, or trackback from your own site.