=45. NIGRIOR.= The man who was _niger_ had qualities opposite to those of the man who was _candidus_; that is, he habitually thought and spoke evil of others. This is illustrated by Hor _Sat_ I iv 81-85 'absentem qui rodit amicum, / qui non defendit alio culpante, solutos / qui captat risus hominum famamque dicacis, / fingere qui non uisa potest, commissa tacere / qui nequit--hic _niger_ est, hunc tu, Romane, caueto'. The same sense is seen at _Sat_ I iv 91 & 100, and at Cic _Caec_ 28 'argentarius Sex. Clodius cui cognomen est Phormio, nec minus _niger_ nec minus confidens quam ille Terentianus est Phormio'. A similar sense of _ater_ is seen at Hor _Epod_ VI 15-16 'an si quis _atro_ dente me petiuerit, / inultus ut flebo puer'; Lindsay Watson _ad loc_ (in an unpublished University of Toronto dissertation) cites Hor _Ep_ I xix 30 'nec socerum quaerit quem uersibus oblinat _atris_' for the same meaning. A specific connection is often made between blackness and envy: compare _Met_ II 760 (the home of _Inuidia_ is _nigro squalentia tabo_) and Statius _Sil_ IV viii 16-17 (_atra Inuidia_). Catullus XCIII 2 'nec scire utrum sis albus an _ater_ homo' and similar passages at Cic _Phil_ II 41 and Apuleius _Apol_ 16 are examples of an unrelated idiom meaning 'I know absolutely nothing about you'. =46. MORDENDA.= For biting as an image of malice, Watson at Hor _Epod_ VI 15 'atro dente' cites Cic _Balb_ 57 'in conuiuiis rodunt, in circulis uellicant; non illo inimico, sed hoc malo dente carpunt', and Val Max IV 7 ext 2 'malignitatis dentes'; Professor R. J. Tarrant cites Hor _Sat_ II i 77 and Martial V xxviii 7 'robiginosis cuncta dentibus rodit'. The image is of course used at times specifically of jealousy; Watson cites _Tr_ IV x 123-24 'nec, qui detrectat praesentia Liuor iniquo / ullum de nostris dente momordit opus' and _EP_ III iv 73-74 'scripta placent a morte fere, quia laedere uiuos / liuor et iniusto carpere dente solet', and Professor Tarrant cites Hor _Carm_ IV iii 16 'et iam dente minus mordeor inuido' and Pindar _P_ II 52-53 '[Greek: eme de chreôn / pheugein dakos adinon kakagorian]'. =47. MEA SORS= = _ego sortem grauem passus_. =48. GRAIOS.= The more poetic _Graius_ is more than four times as common in Ovid as _Graecus_, which, apart from _Her_ III 2, is only found in the _Fasti_ (I 330, IV 63 & V 196) and the _Tristia_ (III xii 41, V ii 68 & V vii 11). =49. GENS MEA PAELIGNI REGIOQVE DOMESTICA SVLMO.= This line is a type of hendiadys, the first half of the line being redefined by the second. The other cities of the Paeligni were Corfinium and Superaequum.