=39. PRO QVIBVS VT MERITIS REFERATVR GRATIA.= Similar language to Pompeius at i 21 'et leuis haec _meritis referatur gratia_ tantis'. =40. MANCIPII ... TVI= (_CB2_) 'belonging to your property' seems a much more elegant construction than the other manuscripts' MANCIPIVM ... TVVM 'your slave', and was conjectured by Heinsius; in support of _mancipium ... tuum_ Burman cited viii 65-66 'si quid adhuc igitur uiui, Germanice, nostro / restat in ingenio, _seruiet_ omne tibi'. =41-44.= Ovid uses the common device of listing _adynata_; the second version of the device at _Tr_ I viii 1-10, where Ovid says that now his friend has betrayed him he expects to see the _adynata_ occur. Comprehensive listings of _adynata_ in ancient literature given by Smith on Tib I iv 65-66, Shackleton Bailey on Prop I xv 29, Nisbet and Hubbard on Hor _Carm_ I ii 9, xxix 10 & xxxiii 7, and by Gow on Theocritus I 132-36. =42. VELIVOLAS= occurs once more at xvi 21 'ueliuolique maris uates', and nowhere else in Ovid's poetry. It is found at Lucretius V 1442 and _Aen_ I 224 'mare ueliuolum', and was from old Latin poetry: Macrobius (_Sat_ VI v 10) cites instances from Livius Andronicus (Morel 58) and Ennius (_Ann_ 380 Vahlen3; _Andromache_ 74 Ribbeck3). =43. SVPINO.= 'Backwards'; almost the reverse of _praeceps_. The same sense at _Med Fac_ 40 'nec redit in fontes unda _supina_ suos'. =45. DIXERITIS.= See on 6 _transieritis_. =45. SVA DONA.= Compare _Her_ XII 203 (Medea to Jason) 'dos mea tu sospes' and Sen _Med_ 142 'muneri parcat meo [=_uitae suae_]' & 228-30. =46. SIC FVERIT VESTRAE CAVSA PERACTA VIAE.= 'So you will have carried out the reason for your journey'. The same sense of _causa_ at _Met_ VI 449-50 'coeperat aduentus causam, mandata referre / coniugis' and of _peragere_ (always with _mandata_ as object) at _Met_ VII 502, XI 629 & XIV 460, _Fast_ III 687, and _Tr_ I i 35-36 'ut _peragas mandata_, liber, culpabere forsan / ingeniique minor laude ferere mei'. Professor E. Fantham points out to me that Ovid may here be playing on a second sense of _causam peragere_, 'end a speech [in court]', for which see _Met_ XV 36-37 'spretarumque agitur legum reus ... _peracta_ est / causa prior ['the case for the prosecution'--Miller], crimenque patet' and _Her_ XXI 152. VI. To Brutus Of the Brutus to whom this poem is addressed nothing is known beyond what Ovid here tells us. He was an advocate, by Ovid's testimony an eminent one (29-38), and had been among the few who stood by Ovid at the time of his exile (23-26). The collection of _Ex Ponto_ I-III was apparently dedicated to him, since the first poem of the first book and the last poem of the third book are addressed to him, but the two poems fail to give any further information on him or on his relationship to Ovid.