3 FEBRUARY 1967, Page 14

Miser Catulle

SIR,—Dr Sisson's argument that the great Englisbi

translators wrote in a contemporary idiom brought to my mind a sort of odi et atno in a popular song of the late 'twenties : Sometimes I love you, Sometimes I hate you, But when I hate you, 'Tis "cos I love you. That's how I am, So what can I do?

I'm happy when I'm with you. I'm not claiming anything for it, but it seemed to to have something at the time. A. A. EVANS 23 Vincent Terrace, London NI