=3. ECQVOS ... ECQVOD= _Laurentianus 36 2, saec xv_ ET QVOS ... ET QVOD _BCMFHILT_. The same corruption is found in certain manuscripts at _Met_ III 442-45 (Narcissus speaking) '"_ecquis_, io siluae, crudelius" inquit "amauit? ... _ecquem_ ... qui sic tabuerit longo meministis in aeuo?"' and commonly. Other instances of _ecquis_ in emotionally heightened questions at _Fast_ IV 488, _Tr_ I vi 11, _EP_ III i 3, and _Her_ XXI 106. =3. SILICES ... FERRVM.= See at viii 49 _tabida consumit ferrum lapidemque uetustas_ (p 270). =4. ALBINOVANE.= Albinovanus Pedo[21] and Ovid seem to have been close friends. Ovid mentions him again at xvi 6 'sidereusque Pedo', and he was the source of the famous anecdote in the elder Seneca (_Cont_ II 2 12) of how Ovid chose as the three lines in his poems he most wished to retain the same three verses a group of his friends most wished to remove. [Footnote 21: _PIR_1 A 343; _PIR_2 A 479; PW 1,1 1314 21-40; Schanz-Hosius II 266 (§315); Bardon 69-73.] He was a famous raconteur: the younger Seneca calls Pedo _fabulator elegantissimus_ at _Ep_ CXXII 15-16 when repeating one of his anecdotes. At the time this poem was written, Albinovanus was engaged on a _Theseid_ (71). Quintilian perhaps had this poem in mind when he included a rather slighting mention of Albinovanus in his catalogue of epic poets at X i 90: 'Rabirius ac Pedo non indigni cognitione, si uacet'. He may, however, have been thinking of Albinovanus' poem on Germanicus' campaigns, of which the elder Seneca preserves some twenty-three hexameters (_Suas_ I 15; commentary by V. Bongi, _Istituto Lombardo di scienze e lett. Rendiconti [Classe di Lettere]_ ser. 3 13 [1949], 28-48. Norden and others have attributed Morel _Incert_ 46 'ingenia immansueta suoque simillima caelo' to the same poem). Martial several times mentions Albinovanus as a writer of epigrams (II lxxvii 5, V v 5 & X xx (xix) 10); this fits well with the younger Seneca's description of Albinovanus as _fabulator elegantissimus_. At _Ann_ I 60 2, Tacitus mentions Pedo as 'praefectus finibus Frisiorum' in Germanicus' campaign of 15. =5-6. LAPIDEM ... ANVLVS ... VOMER.= See at viii 49 _tabida consumit ferrum lapidemque uetustas_ (p 270), and compare _AA_ I 473-76 'ferreus assiduo consumitur _anulus_ usu, / interit assidua _uomer_ aduncus humo. / quid magis est saxo durum, quid mollius unda? / dura tamen molli saxa cauantur aqua'. =6. ATTERITVR= _Heinsius_. Korn and Riese printed the manuscripts' ET TERITVR, for which Riese cited _Tr_ I iv 9-10 'pinea texta sonant pulsu [_Rothmaler_: pulsi _codd_], stridore rudentes, / ingemit _et_ nostris ipsa carina malis' and _Tr_ III iv 57-58 'ante oculos errant domus, urbsque et forma locorum, / accedunt_que_ suis singula facta locis', but these are extended descriptions of single events, not lists of separate examples.