by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE)
Translation © by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019)
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam
Language: Latin
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris? Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
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- by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 85
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- ENG English (Grant Hicks) , copyright © 2025, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
- ITA Italian (Italiano) (Mario Rapisardi) , no title, first published 1889
- SPA Spanish (Español) (Saúl Botero Restrepo) , copyright © 2015, (re)printed on this website with kind permission
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Language: English after the Latin
I hate and I love. Perhaps you will ask [ ... ]
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- Set to music by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), no title, 1981 [ mixed chorus and percussion ], from I Hate and I Love (Odi et Amo), no. 8
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- by Dominick Argento (1927 - 2019), copyright ©
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- a text in Latin by Gaius Valerius Catullus (c84 BCE - 54 BCE), no title, appears in Carmina, no. 85
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