=44. EXTAT ADHVC NEMO SAVCIVS ORE MEO.= Ovid makes similar claims at _Tr_ II 563-65 'non ego mordaci destrinxi carmine quemquam ... _candidus_ a salibus suffusis felle refugi' and _Ibis_ 1-8 'Tempus ad hoc, lustris bis iam mihi quinque peractis, / omne fuit Musae carmen inerme meae ... nec quemquam nostri nisi me laesere libelli ... unus ... perennem / _candoris_ titulum non sinit esse mei'. André says of the present passage, 'C'est oublier le poème _Contre Ibis_', but Housman wrote 'Who was Ibis? Nobody. He was much too good to be true. If one's enemies are of flesh and blood, they do not carry complaisance so far as to chose the dies Alliensis for their birthday and the most ineligible spot in Africa for their birthplace. Such order and harmony exist only in worlds of our own creation, not in the jerry-built edifice of the demiurge ... And when I say that Ibis was nobody, I am repeating Ovid's own words. In the last book that he wrote, several years after the Ibis, he said, ex Pont. IV 14 44, "extat adhuc nemo saucius ore meo"' (1040). Housman is wrong to adduce this line as though it were a statement made under oath (compare the claim made in 26 'littera de uobis est mea questa nihil'). It is nonetheless true that in the extant poems of reproach Ovid does not identify the person he is addressing. =45. ADDE QVOD.= See at xi 21 _adde quod_ (p 368). =45. ILLYRICA ... PICE NIGRIOR.= For the formula, Otto (_pix_) cites this passage and _Il_ IV 275-77 '[Greek: nephos ... melanteron êute pissa]' and from Latin poetry _AA_ II 657-58 'nominibus mollire licet mala: fusca uocetur / _nigrior Illyrica_ cui _pice_ sanguis erit', _Met_ XII 402-3 'totus _pice nigrior_ atra, / candida cauda tamen', _EP_ III iii 97 'sed neque mutatur [_uar_ fuscatur] _nigra pice_ lacteus umor', _Her_ XVIII 7 'ipsa uides caelum _pice nigrius_', and Martial I cxv 4-5 'sed quandam uolo nocte _nigriorem_, / formica, _pice_, graculo, cicada'. =45. ILLYRICA ... PICE.= A famous mineral pitch was produced near Apollonia; André cites Pliny _NH_ XVI 59 'Theopompus scripsit in Apolloniatarum agro picem fossilem non deteriorem Macedonica inueniri', _NH_ XXXV 178, and Dioscorides I 73.