Catullus 85

Catullus 85 is a poem by the Roman poet Catullus for his mistress Lesbia.

"Odi et amo. quare id faciam fortasse requiris?

nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.'" ^[1]

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

↑ "C. Valerius Catullus, Carmina, Poem 85". Perseus Digital Library. Retrieved 8 September 2016.

The poems (Carmina) of Catullus

Lesbia poems	2 2b 3 5 7 8 11 36 37 51 58 68 70 72 75 76 79 83 85 86 87 91 92 104 107 109

Invective poems	10 12 14 15 16 17 21 22 23 24 25 28 29 30 33 39 40 41 42 43 44 47 49 52 53 54 57 59 60 69 71 73 74 77 78 80 84 88 89 90 93 95 97 98 103 108 110 111 112 113 116

Unusual poetic meters	4 8 11 17 22 25 29 30 31 34 37 39 44 51 52 59 60 61 62 63 64

Hendecasyllabic verse	1 2 2b 3 5 6 7 9 10 12 13 14 14b 15 16 21 23 24 26 27 28 32 33 35 36 38 40 41 42 43 45 46 47 48 49 50 53 54 55 56 57 58 58b

Elegiac couplets	65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116

Related links	List of poems by Catullus Codex Vaticanus Ottobonianus Latinus 1829

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