=47. VOTVM COMMVNE DEORVM.= Wheeler translates 'the source of universal prayers to the gods'. But it seems difficult to take _uotum_ in this sense, and impossible to construe _deorum_. André translates 'c'est le voeu de tous les dieux', but it seems strange to have gods forming a _uotum_. Postgate placed a comma before _deorum_; but Germanicus and Agrippina were not gods. Heinsius conjectured SVORVM, but this seems rather forced. I suspect that _deorum_ is correct, the sense of the passage being close to that of _Fast_ II 63-64 'templorum positor, templorum sancte repostor, / sit superis opto mutua cura tui'; but what originally stood in place of _uotum_ is not clear. =48. QVOS LAVS FORMANDOS EST TIBI MAGNA DATOS.= 'Whose entrustment to you for education is an immense honour'. For the construction Ehwald (_KB_ 68) cites _Aen_ IX 92 (Cybebe asks that Aeneas' ships be rescued from fire) 'prosit nostris in montibus ortas', 'let it profit them that it was in my mountains that they had their origin' (Jackson Knight). =49. MOMENTA.= 'Influence'. Compare Caesar _BC_ III 70 2 'ita paruae res magnum in utramque partem _momentum_ habuerunt', Livy I 47 6, Hor _Ep_ I x 15-16 'ubi gratior aura / leniat et rabiem Canis et _momenta_ Leonis', and Manilius II 901 (of the fifth temple) 'hic _momenta_ manent nostrae plerumque salutis'. =49. MOMENTA= _Vaticanus 1595 (saec xv), sicut coni Scaliger et Gronouius_ MONIMENTA _BCMFHILT_. Similarly, most manuscripts have _monimenta_ at _Met_ XI 285-86 (Ceyx to Peleus) 'adicis huic animo ['my kindly nature'] _momenta_ potentia, clarum / nomen auumque Iouem'. =49-50. SALVTI, / QVAE NISI MVTATO NVLLA FVTVRA LOCO EST.= A similar qualification of _salus_ at _Met_ IX 530-31 'quam nisi tu dederis non est habitura salutem / hanc tibi mittit amans'; Bömer _ad loc_ cites other word-plays with _salus_ at _Her_ IV 1, XVI 1 & XVIII 1, and at _Tr_ III iii 87-88. =50. MVTATO ... LOCO.= See at viii 86 _qui minus ... distet_ (p 284). XIV. To Tuticanus In his first poem to Tuticanus, Ovid had promised that other poems would follow: 'teque canam quacumque nota, _tibi carmina mittam_' (xii 19). The present poem was written quite shortly after xii, perhaps in AD 16: 'Haec tibi mittuntur quem sum _modo_ carmine questus / non aptum numeris nomen habere meis'. The opening distich indicates that the poem is addressed to Tuticanus. The dedication is a perfunctory one, however, since he is not referred to at any other point of the letter: Ovid perhaps felt that he had fulfilled any obligations he had to Tuticanus with the highly personal earlier poem.