=5. PVBLICA= = 'usual, ordinary'. Compare _Am_ III vii 11-12 'et mihi blanditias dixit dominumque uocauit, / et quae praeterea _publica_ uerba iuuant', _AA_ III 479-80 'munda, sed e medio consuetaque uerba, puellae, / scribite: sermonis _publica_ forma placet', and Sen _Ben_ VI 34 3 (quoted at 2 _aue_). =6. QVALIS ENIM CVMQVE EST.= A common phrase in the poets when they speak of their own verse: compare Catullus I 8-9 'quare habe tibi quidquid hoc libelli / _qualecumque_', Hor _Sat_ I x 88-89 'quibus [_sc_ amicis] haec, sunt _qualiacumque_, / arridere uelim, doliturus, si placent spe / deterius nostra' (at which Bentley cited the present passage), Martial V lx 5 '_qualiscumque_ legaris ut per orbem', and Statius _Sil_ II praef 'haec _qualiacumque_ sunt, Melior carissime, si tibi non displicuerint, a te publicum accipiant; sin minus, ad me reuertantur' (both passages cited by Munro, _Criticisms_ 5). =7. VT TITVLVM CHARTAE DE FRONTE REVELLAS.= The same hypothetical case at _Tr_ I i 61-62 '_ut titulo careas_, ipso noscere _colore_; / dissimulare uelis, te liquet esse meum' and _EP_ II ix 49-52 (to King Cotys) 'nec regum quisquam magis est instructus ab illis [_sc_ the liberal arts] ... carmina testantur, quae _si tua nomina demas_ / Threicium iuuenem composuisse negem'. =7. CHARTAE.= See at xii 27 _chartis_ (p 380). =7. REVELLAS= 'tear away' is surprisingly strong in its overtones. It is found only here in the poems of exile, six times in the other elegies, and fifteen times in the _Metamorphoses_. =8. QVOD SIT OPVS VIDEOR DICERE POSSE TVVM.= 'I think I could say which work was yours'. Heinsius' QVID SIT OPVS VIDEAR is a strange error: the interrogative adjective is acceptable enough, while the notion of the subjunctive must of course be contained in _posse_, not in the verb that governs it. =11. PRODENT AVCTOREM VIRES.= 'His strength will reveal the poet's identity'. The same sense of _prodere_ at _Met_ II 433 'impedit amplexu nec se sine crimine _prodit_', _Met_ XIV 740-41 'adapertaque ianua factum / prodidit', and _Am_ I viii 109 'uox erat in cursu, cum me mea _prodidit_ umbra'. _Vires_ again used of poetic skill at _Tr_ I vi 29 'ei mihi non magnas quod habent mea carmina _uires_', _Tr_ IV ix 16 'Pierides _uires_ et sua tela dabunt', _EP_ III iii 34, and _EP_ III iv 79. =13. DEPRENSA.= _Deprendere_ 'recognize, detect' is also found at _Met_ II 93-94 'utinamque oculos in pectore posses / inserere et patrias intus _deprendere_ curas' and _Met_ VII 536-37 'strage canum primo uolucrumque ouiumque boumque / inque feris subiti _deprensa_ potentia morbi', as well as at Livy XLII 17 7 (_uenenum_) and Celsus III 18 3 '[phrenetici ...] summam ... speciem sanitatis in captandis malorum operum occasionibus praebent, sed exitu _deprenduntur_'. This seems to be a semi-medical sense; Professor R. J. Tarrant suggests that _colore_ may bear the secondary meaning 'complexion' in this passage.