[HPforGrownups] Re: Hogwart's Motto, help!

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 21344

"Alexandra Y. Kwan" wrote:

> --- Jen Faulkner <jfaulkne at eden.rutgers.edu> wrote:
> > [1] As in the poem of Catullus: odi et amo.  quare
> > id faciam fortasse
> > requiris. / nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.
>
> Translation? <g>
>
> My understanding is: "I hate and I love.  How am I to
> make what I perhaps sought.  I know not, but I become
> knowing and tortured."
>
> Quite wrong, I'm sure.

Not unless Catullus knew Snape. Spot-on.

--Amanda


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