bifocal bunny · Jul 28, 2025

Catullus LXXXV.

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a modernized, animated translation of one of the many love poems written by Catullus to his lover, Lesbia

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I hate that I love you.
But why am I like this?
I know you ask it, too.
And, god, I wish I knew.
I haven’t got a clue.
I feel it through and through,
and it is torturous.
Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requires?
Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

The final frame from my animation of a reimagined Catullus 85.

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