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Originally Posted by HarryT
This is one of the most famous of all Latin love poems, and was (as you say) written by Catullus, and addressed to his mistress, Lesbia:
I hate and I love.
Why do I do this, perhaps you ask.
I don't know; but I feel it happening, and I am tortured.
("Excrucior" literally means "I am crucified" - ie nailed to a cross - but "tortured" probably gives a better sense of the meaning as used figuratively here.)
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I thought Latin for crucified was crucifigo? torture-by-nails
And crucio was just the catch-all torture.
Admittedly, your Latin is a damn sight better than mine though
