NOT2B

Catullus 85

Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris.
Nescio. Sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

I hate and I love. Why I would do that, you may ask.

I don't know. But I feel it happening and I am tortured.











C.H. Sisson (1967):

I hate and I love. You may well ask, why I do so.

I do not know, but I feel it and suffer.




Horace Gregory (1956):

I hate and love.

And if you ask me why,

I have no answer, but I discern,

can feel, my senses rooted in eternal torture.


Frederic Raphael and Kenneth McLeish (1979):

I hate and I love. Why do that? Good question.

No answer, save ‘I do’. Nailed, through either hand.