The Roman Way by Edith Hamilton

Author:Edith Hamilton [Hamilton, Edith]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: History, Ancient, Rome
ISBN: 9780393354454
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 2017-08-15T05:00:00+00:00

Lesbia, however, was used to varied entertainment. She never had an idea of confining herself to “only a few,” and Catullus’ forgiveness mattered less and less to her. From then on he was living in the specially fiery hell reserved for great passions wronged. In his first agony he wrote two lines which express within their brief compass what that experience is like:

I hate and I love. Why—how—can it be, perhaps you will ask me.

That I know not. What I feel, that I do know. I am tortured.

He knew her now, and her sweet words meant nothing any more:

Ah, what a woman says in the arms of a lover who wants her,

Write on the wings of the wind, give to the rushing stream.

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