=14. MARTICOLIS= is possibly an Ovidian innovation, being found elsewhere only at _Tr_ V iii 21-22 'adusque niuosum / Strymona uenisti Marticolamque Geten'. =14. NASO.= The use of the third person adds to the emotive power of the tricolon 'ager ... hirundo ... Naso'. =15-16. TALIA SVSCENSENT PROPTER MIHI VERBA TOMITAE, / IRAQVE CARMINIBVS PVBLICA MOTA MEIS.= For the similar omission of the _est_ of a perfect passive, even in the presence of a parallel finite verb, see _Met_ VII 517-18 'Aeacus ingemuit tristique ita uoce _locutus_: / "flebile principium melior fortuna secuta est"'. =15. SVSCENSENT.= The word is foreign to high poetry. It occurs in Ovid only here and at _EP_ III i 89-90 'nec mihi _suscense_, totiens si carmine nostro / quod facis ut facias teque imitere rogo'; the only instances from other poetry cited at _OLD suscenseo_ are from _Her_ XVI-XXI and Martial. SVSCENSENT is the spelling of _C_; the other manuscripts have SVCCENSENT. I print _susc-_ because that is the spelling given by the ninth-century Hamburg manuscript at _EP_ III i 89 (cited above), where most manuscripts offer _succ-_. _Succ-_ is, however, quite possibly correct, for although _susc-_ is the spelling of the ancient manuscripts of Plautus and Terence (and of the older manuscripts of the _Heroides_), _succ-_ is found at Livy XLII 46 8 in the fifth-century Vienna codex. =18. PLECTAR.= Similar uses at _Tr_ III v 49 'inscia quod crimen uiderunt lumina, _plector_' and _EP_ III iii 64 (Ovid to Amor) 'meque loco _plecti_ commodiore uelit'. =18. AB INGENIO= is parallel to _per carmina_ in the preceding line; for the idiom, see at x 46 _ab amne_ (p 346). =20. TELAQVE ... QVAE NOCVERE SEQVOR.= See at xiii 41 _nocuerunt_ (p 406). =23. SED NIHIL ADMISI.= 'But I have committed no crime'--Wheeler. Compare _EP_ III vi 13 'nec scelus _admittas_ si consoleris amicum'. _Admittere_ in this sense belonged to daily speech: _TLL_ I 752 77 cites Plaut _Trin_ 81, Ter _HT_ 956 'quid ego tantum sceleris _admisi_ miser', Lucilius 690 Marx, and Hor _Ep_ I xvi 53. =25. EXCVTIAT.= See at viii 17 _excutias_ (p 263). =25. NOSTRI MONIMENTA LABORIS= is rather grand, perhaps because Ovid intended the poem to come near the end of the collection. At _Tr_ III iii 78 Ovid's _libelli_ are called his most lasting _monimenta_, and at _EP_ III v 35 Ovid flatteringly refers to Maximus Cotta's _monimenta laboris_. =26. LITTERA DE VOBIS EST MEA QVESTA NIHIL.= This, of course, is manifestly untrue. See _Tr_ V x entire, and compare for instance _Tr_ V vii 45-46 'siue homines [_sc_ specto], uix sunt homines hoc nomine digni, / quamque lupi saeuae plus feritatis habent'. =28. ET QVOD PVLSETVR MVRVS AB HOSTE QVEROR.= Compare _EP_ III i 25 'adde metus _et quod murus pulsatur ab hoste_'. =30. SOLVM= _BCFILT_ LOCVM _MH_. The interchange is very common (examples at _Met_ I 345 & VII 57); the reverse corruption in some manuscripts at _EP_ II ii 96 'sit tua mutando gratia blanda _loco_'.