=29-30. LIVIA ... AMBIGVVM NATO DIGNIOR ANNE VIRO.= Tiberius is mentioned
by Ovid in connection with Livia at _Fast_ I 649, a description of the
rededication of the temple of Concordia in AD 10: 'hanc tua constituit
genetrix et rebus et ara', but does not figure in Ovid's other mentions
of Livia (_Fast_ V 157-58, _Tr_ II 161-62, _EP_ II viii 29-30, and _EP_
III i 117-18); these passages would have been written before Tiberius'
assumption of power.
For the coupling of both Augustus and Tiberius with Livia, Professor C.
P. Jones cites '[Greek: hê doious skêptroisi theous auchousa Sebastê /
Kaisaras]' from an epigram of Ovid's contemporary Honestus.[27]
[Footnote 27: Honestus XXI 1-2 Gow-Page (_Garland of Philip_); discussed
by Professor Jones at _HSCP_ 74 (1970) 249-55.]
=30. AMBIGVVM.= The same use of _ambiguum_ (which may be an Ovidian
peculiarity) at _Met_ I 765-66 '_ambiguum_ Clymene precibus Phaethontis
an ira / mota magis' and _Met_ XI 235-36 'est specus in medio, natura
factus an arte / _ambiguum_, magis arte tamen'.
=30. ANNE.= The word is found at _Am_ III xi 49-50 'quicquid eris, mea
semper eris; tu selige tantum, / me quoque uelle uelis, _anne_ coactus
amem' and _Fast_ VI 27-28 (Juno speaking) 'est aliquid nupsisse Ioui,
Iouis esse sororem / fratre magis dubito glorier _anne_ uiro'; the
resemblances between this and the present passage are obvious. Bömer _ad
loc_ cites instances of _anne_ from Plautus (_Amph_ 173), Terence (_Eun_
556), Cicero (_Fin_ IV 23, _Att_ XII xiv 2), and Virgil (_G_ I 32 & II
159, _Aen_ VI 864).
=31. DVOS IVVENES.= Germanicus and Drusus. For other mentions of them, see
_Tr_ II 167 'tui, sidus iuuenale, nepotes', _Tr_ IV ii 9 'et qui
Caesareo iuuenes sub nomine crescunt', _EP_ II ii 71-72 'praeterit ipse
suos animo Germanicus annos, / nec uigor est Drusi nobilitate minor',
and _EP_ II viii 33-34.
=31. ADIVMENTA.= The word is rare in verse (but see Lucretius VI 1022 and
Silius XI 605 & XVI 12), and Ovid here seems to be giving a version of
the construction in which people are said to be _adiumento_, as at Cic
_Att_ XII xxxi 2 'magno etiam adiumento nobis Hermogenes potest esse in
repraesentando ['in making cash payment'--Shackleton Bailey]', Varro
_LL_ V 90, and _Rhet Her_ III 29. _TLL_ I 704 1 cites "Caecil. _mort._
18" for 'duo minores, qui sint adiumento', which resembles the present
passage, but I do not understand the reference: "Caecil." does not
appear in the table of authors.
=33. NON PATRIA ... SCRIPTA CAMENA.= 'Written in a poem that was not in
Latin'. This is the only instance in Ovid of this sense of _Camena_,
which seems to have been a Horatian idiom: see _Carm_ II xvi 38
'spiritum Graiae tenuem Camenae', _Ep_ I i 1-3 'Prima dicte mihi, summa
dicende Camena ... Maecenas', and _AP_ 275 'tragicae ... Camenae'.
Professor R. J. Tarrant cites Martial XII xciv 5 'fila lyrae moui
Calabris exculta Camenis', which possibly refers to Horace.
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