=86. IVGERA MVLTA FRETI.= According to _TLL_ VII.2 629 7-8 this is the
unique instance of _iugerum_ being applied to water. The transferred
sense is natural enough in view of the poets' application to the sea of
such words as _campus_ and _arua_.
=89. NON SVMVS ... ODIO.= Basically a prose use; but compare _Met_ II 438
'huic odio nemus est', _Fast_ VI 558, _EP_ II i 4 'iam minus hic odio
est quam fuit ante locus', and _Ecl_ VIII 33 'tibi est odio mea
fistula'.
Owen's second edition has the misprint '_nec_ sumus hic odio',
reproduced by Wheeler. The error was induced by _nec_ at the start of
the pentameter.
=90. NEC CVM FORTVNA MENS QVOQVE VERSA MEA EST.= For Ovid's use of
syllepsis, see at vi 16 _spem nostram terras deseruitque simul_ (p 234).
For the sentiment of this line, compare Sen _Med_ 176 'Fortuna opes
auferre, non animum potest', where Costa cites Accius 619-20 Ribbeck2
'nam si a me regnum Fortuna atque opes / eripere quiuit, at uirtutem non
quiit', Sen _Ben_ IV 10 5, Sen _Ep_ XXXVI 6, and Euripides fr. 1066
Nauck.
=91. ILLA QVIES ANIMO.= _Animo_ is locative; or perhaps _in_ should be
supplied from the following line: for the joining of a noun with a
following preposition already with a complement, see Clausen on Persius
I 131 'abaco numeros et secto in puluere metas'. I read _animo_ (found
in one of Heinsius' Vatican manuscripts) because of the parallel
structure it gives with the following _in ore_, but ANIMI (_BCMFHILT_)
is possible enough: _OLD quies_ 7 cites _quies animi_ at Celsus III 18
5.
=91. QVAM TV LAVDARE SOLEBAS.= The same phrase at _Her_ XV 193 'haec sunt
illa [_sc_ pectora], Phaon, _quae tu laudare solebas_'. For the
persistence of Ovid's old habits, compare _EP_ I x 29-30 (he remains a
moderate drinker, as formerly).
=93-94. SIC EGO SVM LONGE, SIC HIC, VBI BARBARVS HOSTIS / VT FERA PLVS
VALEANT LEGIBVS ARMA, FACIT= is clearly corrupt, as will be seen from
Wheeler's 'Such is my bearing in this far land, where the barbarian foe
causes cruel arms to have more power than law' and André's 'Je vis au
loin, ici, où un ennemi barbare donne aux armes cruelles plus de force
qu'aux lois'. Merkel ejected the distich, which seems the best solution;
it is not necessary to the poem's structure, and the iterated _facit ut_
in unrelated clauses at 94 and 97 is suspicious. Also, as Professor R.
J. Tarrant notes, the _ut_ in 94 makes one expect that _ut_ in 95 will
be correlative, when it in fact continues the thought of 93 (or rather
of 91-92, after 93-94 are excised).
Heinsius thought 93 alone to be suspect; if so, the meaning lying behind
the text is probably something like 'What I once was at Rome, I still am
here'.
=93-94. HIC, VBI BARBARVS HOSTIS, / VT FERA PLVS VALEANT LEGIBVS ARMA
FACIT.= Similar statements at _Tr_ V vii 47-48 'non metuunt leges, sed
cedit uiribus aequum, / uictaque pugnaci iura sub ense iacent' and _Tr_
V x 43-44; see also Otto _lex_ 3.
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