=28. MANSVETAS ... MANVS.= The same phrase in the same position at Prop III xvi 9-10 'peccaram semel, et totum sum pulsus in annum: / in me _mansuetas_ non habet illa _manus_'. _Mansuetus_ is foreign to poetic vocabulary, not being found in Virgil or Horace, and only three times in Propertius (I ix 12, I xvii 28, III xvi 10): in Ovid it occurs elsewhere only at _Tr_ III vi 23 'numinis ut laesi fiat mansuetior ira' and _Ibis_ 26. =28. PORRIGET ILLE MANVS.= _Manus_ = _manum_; for the latter, compare _Her_ XVIII 15-16 'protinus haec scribens "felix i littera" dixi, / "iam tibi formosam _porriget illa manum_"'. Alternatively, the phrase could be taken to indicate Pompeius' gesture of welcoming to a suppliant: at _Met_ III 458 Narcissus, saying how he wished to embrace his reflection, says 'cumque ego _porrexi tibi bracchia_, porrigis ultro'. =31-32. VIVIT ADHVC VITAMQVE TIBI DEBERE FATETVR, / QVAM PRIVS A MITI CAESARE MVNVS HABET.= See on i 2 _debitor ... uitae_, and compare _Tr_ V ix 11-14 'Caesaris est primum munus, quod ducimus auras; / gratia post magnos est tibi habenda deos. / ille dedit uitam; tu quam dedit ille tueris, / et facis accepto munere posse frui': the similarity of phrasing makes it all but certain that the poem was addressed to Pompeius. =33. MEMORI ... ORE.= The phrase belongs to high poetic diction: compare _Met_ VI 508 'absentes pro se _memori_ rogat _ore_ salutent', _Met_ X 204 (Apollo to the dead Hyacinthus) 'semper eris mecum _memorique_ haerebis in _ore_', and _AA_ III 700 'auditos _memori_ detulit _ore_ sonos'. =35. SANGVINE BISTONIVM QVOD NON TEPEFECERIT ENSEM.= Another instance of high poetic diction: compare _Her_ I 19 'sanguine Tlepolemus Lyciam _tepefecerat_ hastam', _Aen_ IX 333-34 'atro _tepefacta_ cruore / terra', _Aen_ IX 418-19 'hasta ... traiecto ... haesit _tepefacta_ cerebro', and Hor _Sat_ II iii 136. =37-38. ADDITA PRAETEREA VITAE QVOQVE MVLTA TVENDAE / MVNERA.= The dative expresses purpose. For the sense of _tueri_ 'sustain', compare _Tr_ V ix 13 'uitam ... quam dedit ille _tueris_', Cic _Deiot_ 22 'atque antea quidem maiores copias alere poterat; nunc exiguas uix _tueri_ potest', Livy V 4 5, XXIII 38 12 & XXXIX 9 5, and Pliny _NH_ XXXIII 134 'M. Crassus negabat locupletem esse nisi qui reditu annuo legionem _tueri_ posset'. =38. NE PROPRIAS ATTENVARET OPES.= This may be a reference to the financial burden of living in exile, but more probably refers to the actual financial loss Ovid suffered in exile: 'ditata est spoliis perfida turba meis' (_EP_ II vii 62). It is clear from _Tr_ I vi 7-8 that Ovid had feared such losses from the beginning of his exile. _Attenuare_ is a very strong verb: compare _Met_ VIII 843-45 (of Erysichthon) 'iamque fame patrias altique uoragine uentris / _attenuarat_ ['had exhausted'--Miller] opes, sed inattenuata manebat / tum quoque dira fames'.