


We didn’t read this in school, so it was the first of Catullus that I read. It’s another poetry collection. The title sums up quite well the problems that Catullus faces with the woman he loves, since it is clear that love and hate are not so different after all.
While the poems feel rather modern, I didn’t like them and totally get why we would have skipped this in school.
I Love and I Hate (Little Black Classics #69) – Catullus
Now I did do Catullus at school for O-level Latin, and loved him, although our own translations were rather tame…
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It’s very much a possibility that this translation is just bad. The translations in these editions haven’t always been really great tbh.
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