=121. AVDIERIT.= Probably a perfect subjunctive 'may have heard', although possibly an epistolary future perfect indicative ('when you receive this, your brother will perhaps [_forsitan_] have heard'). For the perfect subjunctive compare _Met_ X 560-62 _'forsitan audieris_ aliquam certamine cursus / ueloces superasse uiros'. =121. FORTVNA EST IMPAR ANIMO.= Similar phrasing at _Tr_ V v 46-47 (on his wife's birthday) 'at non sunt ista gaudia nata die, / sed labor et curae _fortunaque moribus impar_'; but note the different sense of _fortuna_. =121. FORTVNA.= 'My means' (Wheeler). The sense is rare but classical; _OLD fortuna_ 12 cites among other passages Cic _Fam_ XIV 4 2 'periculum fortunarum ['possessions'] et capitis sui' and Caes _BG_ V 43 4. =122. CARPO ... OPES.= For the sense of _carpo_ see at viii 32 _carpsit opes ... meas_ (p 266). =126. ILLVM= _CMFHILTB2_ ILLI _B1_. Either accusative or dative would be acceptable enough with _latere_. The earliest instances from verse given by _TLL_ VII.2 997 49 are Lucretius III 280 for the dative and _Aen_ I 130 for the accusative. I retain the accusative because it is the reading of most manuscripts, including _B_'s close relative _C_. There are similar variants involving the object of _latere_ at _Fast_ V 361: the accusative given by most manuscripts is generally read in preference to the dative. =127-29. TV ... TV.= For the anaphora of _tu_ in hymns or solemn prayer, see the passages collected by Nisbet and Hubbard at Hor _Carm_ I x 9 and by Tarrant at Sen _Ag_ 311. =127. SVPERIS ASCITE.= _Asciscere_ is generally used of admission to the citizenship or to the Senate: for parallels to the metaphorical use here, see Tarrant at Sen _Ag_ 812-13 'tuus ille bis seno meruit labore / _adlegi caelo_ magnus Alcides'. =128.= Causal =VT= [_'ex ueteribus' Naugerius_] seems an appropriate correction for the manuscripts' lame ET. =129-30. NOSTRAS ... PRECES.= The hyperbaton adds elevation and dignity to the prayer. =129-30. INTER CONVEXA ... SIDERA= = _inter sidera conuexi caeli_; the hypallage adds further to the elevation of the passage. For _conuexa_ compare Festus (58 Muller; 51 Lindsay) 'conuexum est ex omni parte declinatum, _qualis est natura caeli_, quod ex omni parte ad terram uersum declinatum est', _Met_ I 26 'ignes _conuexi_ uis et sine pondere _caeli_', _Ecl_ IV 50, and Cic _Arat_ 560 (314). In particular compare _Aen_ I 607-8, which Ovid is clearly imitating: 'dum montibus umbrae / lustrabunt, _conuexa_ polus dum _sidera_ pascet'. There is some question as to whether _conuexa_ should there be taken with _sidera_, or as the object of _lustrabunt_: Ovid clearly took it with _sidera_. =130. SOLLICITO QVAS DAMVS ORE PRECES.= For the general wording compare _Tr_ III viii 20 'tum quoque _sollicita mente rogandus_ erit' and _EP_ III i 148 'nil nisi _sollicitae_ sint tua uerba _preces_': for _sollicito ... ore_ compare _sollicita uoce_ at _Met_ X 639 & XIV 706.