In this poem, Catullus continues to write about the love between the Lesbia and the character Catullus to be legitimate because she won't stop talking about him (even though the things she says aren't very nice). This sort of reasoning can be connected back to poem 83, where Catullus states that Lesbia's ranting and anger shows a revealing emotion. It seems that he has to reassure himself of this, however.
Even in our own lives today, if something goes wrong we try to make sense of it in order to make it seem less bad. When kids are younger and someone is picking on them, the parents make the common statement of "That means (s)he like you." This is sort of reasoning that Catullus might be going at. However, there is always the possibility that Lesbia might be saying all these bad things about Catullus in order to give him a hint that her feelings might have gone down for him. The true extent of the characters feelings is still being doubted and questioned in this poem.
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