Elsewhere in Ovid, the only form found of _atterere_ is _attritus_: this circumstance perhaps contributed to the corruption of the present passage. =6. ATTERITVR PRESSA VOMER ADVNCVS HVMO.= Professor R. J. Tarrant points out to me the hypallage in this passage. _Pressus_ is to be taken twice, with _uomer_ and with _humo_: the earth is _pressed down_ as the plough is _pressed_ into it. =7. TEMPVS EDAX.= The same phrase at _Met_ XV 234; compare as well _edax ... uetustas_ at _Met_ XV 872. =7. PRAETER NOS.= At _EP_ II vii 39-45, Ovid (with a series of images parallel to that of the present passage) says that he is in fact being worn away by the hardships he is enduring: 'ut ... caducis / percussu crebro _saxa_ cauantur aquis, / sic ego continuo Fortunae uulneror ictu ... nec magis assiduo _uomer_ tenuatur ab usu, / nec magis est curuis Appia trita rotis, / pectora quam mea sunt serie calcata malorum'. =8. PERDIT= _I_ PERDET _BCMFHLT_. The tense is made probable by the preceding _cauat ... consumitur ... atteritur_ and the following _cessat_; compare as well _Tr_ IV vi 17-18 'cuncta pot_est_ ... uetustas / praeter quam curas attenuare meas'. Third conjugation verbs in the third person are for obvious reasons peculiarly apt to corruption of tense and mood. The alteration from present to future is rather less common than the inverse corruption, for an instance of which see at xii 18 _reddet_ (p 378). =8. CESSAT DVRITIA MORS QVOQVE VICTA MEA.= Death does not conquer Ovid, but is conquered by him. Professor E. Fantham points out to me the baroque inversion in the phrase, citing as a parallel Sen _Tr_ 1171-75, where Hecuba says that death fears her and flees her. Riese placed a question mark at the end of the line, but since in 7 Ovid asserts unambiguously that time does not affect him, there seems no reason to make the following line a question. In his poems from exile Ovid often expresses his wish to die; see _Tr_ III viii 39-40 'tantus amor necis est querar ut cum Caesaris ira / quod non offensas uindicet ense suas', _Tr_ III xiii 5-6, IV vi 49-50, and V ix 37-38. =9. EXEMPLVM EST ANIMI NIMIVM PATIENTIS VLIXES.= Ovid frequently compares his trials in exile to those undergone by Ulysses. The longest instance of this is _Tr_ I v 57-84; compare as well _Tr_ III xi 61-62 'crede mihi, si sit nobis collatus Vlixes, / Neptuni minor est quam Iouis ira fuit', _Tr_ V v 1-4, and _EP_ I iii 33-34, II vii 59-60 & III vi 19-20.