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Catullus 85

Hope Comforting Love In Bondage (1901) Sidney Harold Meteyard. Catullus recognizes all Lesbia's faults but cannot resist her charms, and suffers accordingly.
Hope Comforting Love In Bondage (1901) Sidney Harold Meteyard. Catullus recognizes all Lesbia’s faults but cannot escape her charms, and suffers accordingly.

Odi et amo. quare id , fortasse requiris.

nescio, sed sentio et excrucior.

What possible forms of facio do we have here?
Present Subjunctive or Future Indicative.
Is there any reason that this verb should be subjunctive?
Yes. It is part of an Indirect Question.
What form do we have here?
Present Infinitive Semi-deponent.
Why do we have an infinitive here?
Indirect Statement