=49. PRO CAESARIBVS= = _pro Caesarum factis_. Compare _Res Gestae_ 4 'ob res a me aut per legatos meos auspicis [=_auspiciis_] meis terra marique prospere gestas quinquagiens et quinquiens _decreuit senatus_ supplicandum esse dis immortalibus. dies autem per quos _ex senatus consulto_ supplicatum est fuere DCCCLXXXX'. =49. CAESARIBVS.= Tiberius, Germanicus, and Drusus. Similarly used at _EP_ II vi 18 (to Graecinus) 'omnia _Caesaribus_ [Augustus and Tiberius] sic tua facta probes'. =49. DECERNERE GRATES.= 'Propose (in the Senate) the decreeing of thanks'. The sense of _decernere_ is common in prose: see Cic _Prou Cons_ 1, _Att_ VII i 7, and the other passages at _OLD decerno_ 6. =49. GRATES= appears occasionally in prose (Tarrant at Sen _Ag_ 380 _reddunt grates_ cites Livy XXIII 11 12, Curtius IX 6 17, and Vell Pat II 25 4), but in hexameter and elegiac verse is the necessary representative for _grAtiAs_. =51. CVM IAM FVERIS POTIORA PRECATVS.= For _potior_ 'more important' compare Caesar _BC_ I 8 (a reported remark of Pompey) 'semper se rei publicae commoda priuatis necessitudinibus habuisse _potiora_', Livy VIII 29 2, and the many passages at _OLD potior2_ 4. The usage belongs to prose: Ovid elsewhere and Virgil always use _potior_ to mean either 'more powerful' or 'preferable'. =53-54. SVRGAT ... DETQVE.= The apodosis of an implied condition: 'If you prayed for me, the fire would rise'. =53. SVRGAT AD HANC VOCEM PLENA PIVS IGNIS AB ARA.= The same favourable omen at _Met_ X 278-79 (Pygmalion has finished his prayer to Venus) 'amici numinis omen, / flamma ter accensa est apicemque per aera duxit'. =53. PLENA ... AB ARA.= Another indication of Graecinus' devotion to the Caesars. =53. PIVS.= 'Holy'; compare _pia tura_ at _Am_ III iii 33, _Met_ XI 577, and _Tr_ II 59, _pia sacra_ at _Tr_ V v 2, and _pio ... igne_ at _Tr_ V v 12. =54. LVCIDVS.= Proleptic: 'The flame-tips would become bright and furnish a good omen for your prayer'. =55. NE CVNCTA QVERAMVR.= 'So that not everything I say will be a complaint'. =57. LAETITAE EST= _LT_. Most manuscripts have LAETITIA EST. Similarly at _Met_ VIII 430 'illi _laetitiae est_ cum munere muneris auctor' most codices read _laetitia est_. Heinsius thought LAETITIAE possibly correct here, as might be the case also in the _Metamorphoses_: _laetitiae_ could easily have been misread as _laetitia E_ [=_est_], with _laetitiae est_ as a later correction.