Catullus – Odi et amo
Sandro Botticelli, Pallas and the Centaur, c. 1482 Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior. I hate and I love. Why I do this perhaps you ask. I do not know, but I sense that it happens and I am tormented. (Transl. by Leonard C. Smithers) I hate …