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Catullus 75

Catullus torments himself over faithless Lesbia, but can't stop loving her, no matter what she does.

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Huc est mens deducta tua mea, Lesbia, culpa
...atque ita se officio perdidit ipsa suo,
ut iam nec bene velle queat tibi, si optima fias,
...nec desistere amare, omnia si facias.

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Meter: elegiacs.
1. tua: Ablative with culpa; 
mea: Nominative with mens.
2. ipsa: Nominative, sc. mens.
3. optima: sc. femina.
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