=13-14. ET QVI PENELOPAE RESCRIBERE IVSSIT VLIXEM / ERRANTEM SAEVO PER DVO LUSTRA MARI.= All that is known of Sabinus is what Ovid says here and in his list of Sabinus' poems at _Am_ II xviii 27-34 'quam cito de toto rediit meus orbe Sabinus / scriptaque diuersis rettulit ille locis! / candida Penelope signum cognouit Vlixis; / legit ab Hippolyto scripta nouerca suo. / iam pius Aeneas miserae rescripsit Elissae, / quodque legat Phyllis, si modo uiuit, adest. / tristis ad Hypsipylen ab Iasone littera uenit; / det uotam Phoebo Lesbis amata lyram' (this line, like the letter of Sappho, has been considered suspect; see R. J. Tarrant, "The Authenticity of the Letter of Sappho to Phaon (_Heroides XV_)", _HSPh_ 85 [1981] 133-53). Since the letter of Ulysses is the first one mentioned in the list at _Am_ II xviii 29, it was presumably the first poem in Sabinus' collection of epistles; hence Ovid's use of it here to indicate the entire collection. Line 14 may be an echo of one of Sabinus' poems. =15. TRISOMEN= _C_ TRISOMEM _B1_. For the many other variants, see the apparatus. The word is clearly corrupt; correction is difficult in the absence of further information on Sabinus. TROEZENA (a conjecture reported by Micyllus) seems unattractive. Heinsius had difficulty with the passage: 'an _Tymelen_? opinor certe nomen puellae a Sabino decantatae hic latere'. TROESMIN, suggested by Ehwald (_JAW_ CIX [1901] 187), is unlikely--why would Sabinus have wished to recount Vestalis' capture of the city?--but not, as claimed by Vollmer (PW I A,2 1598 34), unmetrical: lengthening is common enough before the main caesura (although I have found no example of lengthened _-in_). Bardon (61) wished to read TROEZEN (which is in fact the reading of _T_), apparently not realizing that an accusative form is required. =15-16. DIERVM ... OPVS.= Sabinus apparently started work on a calendar-poem, which may have resembled the _Fasti_; compare _Fast_ I 101 'uates operose _dierum_'. =16. CELERI= = 'premature'. =17. INGENIIQVE SVI DICTVS COGNOMINE LARGVS.= For the play on the name compare xiii 2 'qui quod es, id uere, Care, uocaris, aue'. Nothing is known of Largus beyond what Ovid here tells us. =18. GALLICA QVI PHRYGIVM DVXIT IN ARVA SENEM.= Largus described Antenor's migration to Venetia and founding of Patavium, for which see _Aen_ I 242-49 and Livy I 1. =18. GALLICA ... ARVA.= Patavium was in Cisalpine Gaul. =18. PHRYGIVM ... SENEM.= At _Il_ III 149-50 Antenor is listed among the '[Greek: dêmogerontes ... gêraï dê polemoio pepaumenoi]' sitting on the Trojan wall who see Helen approach. =19. DOMITO ... AB HECTORE TROIAM.= 'The story of Troy after the death of Hector'. _Gothanus II 121_ has the interpolation DOMITAM ... AB HECTORE, which Korn printed. =19. CAMERINVS.= Nothing is known of this poet.