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Catullus 83

Although Catullus understands mentally that their relationship is over, he is still emotionally unable to convince himself of it.

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Lesbia mi praesente viro mala plurima dicit:
....haec illi fatuo maxima laetitia est.
mule, nihil sentis? si nostri oblita taceret, 
....sana esset: nunc quod gannit et obloquitur, 
non solum meminit, sed, quae multo acrior est res,...................5
....irata est. hoc est, uritur et loquitur.

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Meter: elegiacs.
1. praesente viro: Ablative Absolute.
3. Mule, nihil sentis?: apostrophe; 
oblivisci: takes the Genitive nostri as its object.
5. non solum...sed: "not only...but"; 
multo: "much"
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