=24. ADIVTA EST NOVITAS NVMINE NOSTRA DEI.= _Nouitas nostra_ could mean either 'my novel attempt' (Wheeler, Lewis and Short) or 'my inexperience'; if the latter, _adiuta_ would bear the uncommon but quite valid meaning 'compensated for'; _OLD adiuuo_ 7 cites passages from Cicero (_Fam_ V xiii 5 'ea quibus secundae res ornantur, aduersae adiuuantur'), Livy, and Ulpian. =25-32.= Similar catalogues of the imperial family occur at _Met_ XV 834-47, _Tr_ II 161-68, _Tr_ IV ii 7-12, _EP_ II ii 69-74, and _EP_ II viii 29-34; these passages are quoted from below. =25-26. NAM PATRIS AVGVSTI DOCVI MORTALE FVISSE / CORPUS, IN AETHERIAS NVMEN ABISSE DOMOS.= Other mentions of the deified Augustus at vi 15-16 'coeperat Augustus detectae ignoscere culpae; / spem nostram terras deseruitque simul' and viii 63-64 'et modo, Caesar, auum, quem uirtus addidit astris, / sacrarunt aliqua carmina parte tuum'. Ovid had predicted Augustus' apotheosis: see _Met_ XV 838-39 'nec nisi cum senior Pylios aequauerit annos, / aetherias sedes cognataque sidera tanget', _Tr_ II 57-58 'optaui peteres caelestia sidera tarde, / parsque fui turbae parua precantis idem', and _Tr_ V ii 51-52, V v 61-62, V viii 29-30 & V xi 25-26. Augustus' apotheosis was similar to those of Hercules, Aeneas, Romulus, and Julius Caesar: compare the descriptions at _Met_ IX 262-72 'interea quodcumque fuit populabile flammae / Mulciber abstulerat, nec ... quicquam ab imagine ductum / matris habet, tantumque Iouis uestigia seruat ... maiorque uideri / coepit et _augusta_ fieri grauitate uerendus. / quem pater omnipotens inter caua nubila raptum / quadriiugo curru radiantibus intulit astris', _Met_ XIV 603-4 'quicquid in Aenea fuerat mortale, repurgat [_sc_ Numicius] / et respersit aquis; pars optima restitit illi', _Met_ XIV 824-28 'abstulit [_sc_ Mars] Iliaden: corpus mortale per auras / dilapsum tenues ... pulchra subit facies et puluinaribus altis / dignior', and _Met_ XV 844-46 'Venus ... Caesaris eripuit membris neque in aera solui / passa recentem animam caelestibus intulit astris'. =25. PATRIS AVGVSTI.= _Patris_ to make it clear that Ovid is not speaking of Tiberius Caesar _Augustus_. =26. CORPVS ... NVMEN.= Precisely the same distinction is found in Velleius' description of Augustus' apotheosis and the start of Tiberius' reign: 'post redditum caelo patrem et _corpus_ eius humanis honoribus, _numen_ diuinis honoratum, primum principalium eius operum fuit ordinatio comitiorum' (II 124 3). =27. PAREM VIRTVTE PATRI.= Compare _EP_ II viii 31-32 (to Augustus, about Tiberius) 'perque tibi _similem uirtutis imagine_ natum, / moribus agnosci qui tuus esse potest'. =27-28. FRENA ... IMPERII.= The same metaphor at _Tr_ II 41-42 'nec te quisquam moderatius umquam / _imperii_ potuit _frena_ tenere sui', _EP_ II ix 33 'Caesar ut _imperii_ moderetur _frena_ precamur', and _EP_ II v 75 (of Germanicus) 'succedatque suis orbis moderator _habenis_'.