pleasure is unalloyed. Compare Hor _Carm_ II x 17-18 'non, si male nunc,
et olim / sic erit'. For the more usual thought, see _Met_ VII 453-54
'nulla est sincera uoluptas, / sollicitique aliquid laetis interuenit'
and _Fast_ VI 463 'interdum miscentur tristia laetis'.
=1. AVSTRALIBVS VMIDA NIMBIS.= An image used elsewhere by Ovid as a
metaphor of his unhappiness: see _Tr_ I iii 13 'hanc animo nubem dolor
ipse remouit', _Tr_ V v 22 'pars uitae tristi cetera nube uacet', and
_EP_ II i 5-6 'tandem aliquid pulsa curarum nube serenum ['cloudless']
uidi'.
=1. VMIDA.= For the dampness of the south wind, compare _Met_ I 65-66
'contraria tellus / nubibus assiduis pluuiaque madescit ab Austro'.
=2. NON INTERMISSIS ... AQVIS.= _Non intermissis_ in the same metrical
position at _EP_ I iv 16 'non intermissis cursibus ibit equus';
_intermissus_ used of bad weather at _Tr_ II 149-51 'uentis agitantibus
aera [_uar_ aequora] non est / aequalis rabies continuusque furor, / sed
modo subsidunt _intermissique_ silescunt'.
=7. DOMO PATRIAQVE CARENS OCVLISQVE MEORVM.= Similar phrasing at _Tr_ III
vii 45 'cum caream patria uobisque domoque', _Tr_ III xi 15-16 'quod
coniuge cara, / quod patria careo pignoribusque meis', _Tr_ V v 19 (of
his wife) 'illa domo nataque sua patriaque fruatur', _Tr_ I v 83, _Tr_
IV vi 19, _Tr_ IV ix 12, _Tr_ V x 47, _EP_ I iii 47, and _EP_ II ix 79.
=7. OCVLISQVE MEORVM.= Compare _Tr_ V iv 27-30 'nec patriam magis ille
suam desiderat ... quam uultus _oculosque_ tuos, o dulcior illo / melle
quod in ceris Attica ponit apis'. _Oculisque meorum_ seems to mean
'regards des miens' (André) rather than 'the sight of my own' (Wheeler);
compare _Aen_ XI 800-1 'oculosque tulere / cuncti ad reginam', _Met_
VII 256 'et monet arcanis oculos remouere profanos', Persius V 33
'permisit sparsisse oculos ['to look where I chose']', and from prose
Cic _Fam_ IX ii 2 'ut uitemus oculos hominum'.
=9. VVLTVM DIFFVNDERE.= The action opposite to _trahis uultus_ (i 5);
compare _Met_ XIV 272 'diffudit uultus' and from prose Sen _Ep_ 106 5
'nisi dubitas an uultum nobis mutent, an frontem astringant, an _faciem
diffundant_'. It is probably from this expression that _diffundere_
acquired the extended sense of 'mentally relax' (_OLD diffundo_ 5), for
which compare _Met_ IV 766 'diffudere animos', _Met_ III 318 'Iouem
... diffusum nectare', and _AA_ I 218 'diffundetque animos omnibus ista
dies'.
=9. CAVSAM.= CAVSA (_BCT_) is grammatical enough, but corruption from _qua
... causam_ to _qua ... causa_ is more likely than the inverse.
The construction of the sentence is rather complex: Ovid's normal
practice would be to employ an objective genitive with _causa_.
=10. POSSIM= _BCMHIT_ POSSEM _L_ POSSVM _F_. The clause is in primary tense
sequence following the true perfect _inueni_, which represents the
present result of a past action. Compare _fecit ... minuant_ in 5-6.
=10. NEC MEMINISSE= = _et obliuisci_. _Nec (non) meminisse_ is metrically
useful for filling the second hemistich of the pentameter up to the
disyllable; so used at vi 50 'arguat ingratum non meminisse sui', _Tr_
IV iv 40 & V xiii 18, and _EP_ II iv 6.
=11. SOLVS= _BC_. TRISTIS, the reading of the other six manuscripts, is
tempting, as being the less neutral of the two adjectives, and was
accepted without question by Heinsius and Burman. If it is accepted, one
could argue that Ovid refers back to the word at 21 'dilapsis ... curis'.
But _solus_ is shown to be correct by the passage Ovid is here
imitating, Virgil _G_ I 388-89 'tum cornix plena pluuiam uocat improba
uoce / et _sola_ in sicca secum _spatiatur harena_'. _Solus_ was lost
through haplography ('fulua solus': the elongated 's' form common in
manuscripts would have facilitated the error) and _tristis_ interpolated
to restore the metre. Ehwald believed (_KB_ 63) that the error arose
from _tristis_ having been written above _solus_ in the archetype, but
there is no reason to accept this, since the one could not stand as a
gloss for the other.
=11. SPATIARER HARENA.= The phrase is taken from Virgil _G_ I 388-89
(quoted in the previous note); Ovid imitates the passage again at _Met_
II 572-73 'lentis / passibus, ut soleo, summa _spatiarer harena_'.
=12. VISA EST A TERGO PENNA DEDISSE SONVM.= 'I thought I heard a wing
rustle behind me'. A similar advent of an unseen deity at _Met_ III
96-98 'uox subito audita est; neque erat cognoscere promptum / unde, sed
audita est: "quid, Agenore nate, peremptum / serpentem spectas? et tu
spectabere serpens"'. Compare as well _Met_ V 294-98 'Musa loquebatur:
pennae sonuere per auras, / uoxque salutantum ramis ueniebat ab altis. /
suspicit et linguae quaerit tam certa loquentes / unde sonent hominemque
putat Ioue nata locutum; / ales erat'.
=12. PENNA= _BMFHILT_ PINNA _C_. _Pinna_ and _penna_, perhaps from
different roots, were confused even in antiquity. The ancient
manuscripts of Virgil offer _pinna_ as the spelling even for the meaning
'wing', but Quintilian clearly took _penna_ as the correct spelling for
this sense: 'quare ['therefore'] discat puer ... quae cum quibus
cognatio; nec miretur cur ... a pinno quod est acutum [_sc_ fiat] securis
utrimque habens aciem _bipennis_, ne illorum sequatur errorem qui, quia
a pennis duabus hoc esse nomen existimant, pennas auium dici uolunt'. (I
iv 12).
=13. NEQVE ERAT= _CMHL_ NEC ERAT _BFIT_. Virgil had a very strong
preference for _neque_ before words starting with a vowel, but Ovid did
not follow this rule: compare _Met_ I 101 'nec ullis', 132 'nec adhuc',
223 'nec erit', 306 'nec ablato', and 322 'nec amantior'. However, it
seems better to accept _neque_ as the true reading in view of the good
manuscript support and the parallel at _Met_ III 96-97 'uox subita
audita est (neque [_uar_ nec] erat cognoscere promptum / unde, sed
audita est)'.
=13. NEQVE ERAT CORPVS.= 'But there was no body'. _Neque_ (_nec_)
represents _sed ... non_ as well as _et ... non_.
It is one of Ovid's favourite devices to describe the aspect of gods
when they appear to him, as at _Am_ III i 7-14 (Elegy and Tragedy),
_Fast_ I 95-100 (Janus), _Fast_ III 171-72 (Mars), _Fast_ V 194 (Flora),
_Fast_ V 637-38 (Tiber), and _EP_ III iii 13-20 (Amor). The only other
passage where Ovid says he did not see the god is _Fast_ VI 251-54, but
Vesta had no traditional appearance that Ovid could make use of: compare
_Fast_ VI 298 'effigiem nullam Vesta ... habet'.
The reason that Ovid did not describe Fama was that the picture of Fama
as a winged monster which Virgil had made standard (_Aen_ IV 174-88)
could not easily be integrated into the poem. The only description of
Fama in Ovid is at _Met_ IX 137-39 'Fama loquax praecessit ad aures, /
Deianira, tuas, quae ueris addere falsa / gaudet, et e minima sua per
mendacia crescit'. At _Met_ XII 39-63 there is a memorable description
of Fama's dwelling-place. Fama is also personified (but with no
descriptions) at _EP_ II i 19-20 & II ix 3.
=16. PER IMMENSAS AERE LAPSA VIAS.= Similar phrasing at _EP_ III iii 77-78
(Amor speaking) 'ut tamen aspicerem consolarerque iacentem, / _lapsa per
immensas est mea penna uias_'.
=17. QVO NON TIBI CARIOR ALTER.= Compare _Tr_ III vi 3 'nec te mihi carior
alter', _Tr_ IV vi 46 'qua nulla mihi carior, uxor', and _EP_ II viii 27
'per patriae nomen, quae te tibi carior ipso est'.
=18. CANDIDVS ET FELIX PROXIMVS ANNVS ERIT.= Compare _Fast_ I 63-64 'ecce
tibi _faustum_, Germanice, nuntiat _annum_ / inque meo primus carmine
Ianus adest'. No doubt both passages echo the phrasing of a New Year
wish or prayer.
=18. CANDIDVS.= 'Favourable'. Compare _Tr_ V v 13-14 (on his wife's
birthday) 'optime natalis! quamuis procul absumus, opto / _candidus_
huc uenias', Prop IV i 67-68 'Roma, faue, tibi surgit opus, date
_candida_ ciues / omina, et inceptis dextera cantet auis!', and _Fast_ I
79-80 'uestibus intactis Tarpeias itur in arces, / et populus _festo
concolor_ ipse suo est'.
=19. DIXIT ET= has a definite epic flavour, being found in Virgil at _Aen_
I 402 & 736, II 376, III 258, IV 659, V 477, VI 677, VIII 366 & 615, IX
14, X 867, XI 561 & 858, XII 266 & 681, and _G_ IV 499; from Ovid
compare _Met_ I 466-67 'dixit et eliso percussis aere pennis / impiger
umbrosa Parnasi constitit arce', I 762 'dixit et implicuit materno
bracchia collo', III 474, IV 162 & 576, V 230 & 419, VIII 101, and VIII
757. A close parallel at _EP_ III iii 93-94 (Amor has been speaking with
Ovid) 'dixit et aut ille est tenues dilapsus in auras, / coeperunt
sensus aut uigilare mei'.
=22. EXCIDIT.= 'I forgot'; the opposite of _subit_ 'I remember'. The idiom
is standard Latin (_OLD excido1_ 9b); Ovidian instances at _Her_ XII 71,
_Am_ II i 18, _Met_ VIII 449-50 'excidit omnis / luctus et a lacrimis in
poenae uersus amorem est', _Met_ XIV 139, _Fast_ V 315, _Tr_ I v 14,
_EP_ II iv 24, and _EP_ II x 8 'exciderit tantum ne tibi cura mei'.
=23. VBI ... RESERAVERIS ANNVM.= 'When you have unlocked the year'. Compare
Ovid's descriptions of Janus at _Fast_ I 99 'tenens baculum dextra
_clauemque_ sinistra' and _Fast_ I 253-54 '"nil mihi cum bello: pacem
postesque tuebar / et" _clauem_ ostendens "haec" ait "arma gero"'.
=23. LONGVM ANNVM.= André translates, 'l'année longue à venir', citing Cic
_Phil_ V 1 'Nihil umquam longius his Kalendiis Ianuariis mihi uisum
est', to which _OLD longus_ 14a adds (among other passages) Caesar _BG_
I 40 13 'in longiorem diem collaturus' and Sen _Ep_ 63 3 'non differo in
_longius_ tempus'; but the meaning 'far off' seems unsuited to the
present context. _Longum_ should be taken in its usual sense; it perhaps
emphasizes that the whole year is still ahead.
=24. SACRO MENSE.= _Sacer_ because of the religious ceremonies marking the
New Year.
=25-28.= The first action of the new consul was to take auspices at his
home and to assume the consular toga: compare Livy XXI 63 10 (217 BC;
Flaminius has entered his consulship while absent from Rome) 'magis pro
maiestate uidelicet imperii Arimini quam Romae magistratum initurum et
in deuersorio hospitali quam apud penates suos praetextam sumpturum'
(Mommsen _Staatsrecht_ I3 615-17).
=26. NE TITVLIS QVICQVAM DEBEAT ILLE SVIS.= There are two possible ways of
understanding this line.
One way is to take _titulis_ as referring to Pompeius' earlier
magistracies, 'as if the series of offices were a score which Pompey
would pay in full when he became consul' (Wheeler). A similar use at
_Her_ IX 1 'Gratulor Oechaliam titulis accedere nostris'.
_Titulis_ does not have to be taken as a strict reference to the offices
Pompeius had already held, but can have the wider sense of 'reputation,
honour'. Compare the opening line of _Her_ IX quoted above; Professor R.
J. Tarrant cites _Met_ XV 855 'sic magnus cedit _titulis_ Agamemnonis
Atreus' and Juvenal VIII 241.
The second way to take the passage is, with Némethy, to understand
_titulis ... suis_ as being equivalent to _maioribus suis, qui magnos
titulos habent_, the _tituli_ being the inscriptions below the
_imagines_ of Pompeius' ancestors. A parallel for the sense at _EP_ III
i 75-76 'hoc domui _debes_ de qua censeris, ut illam / non magis
officiis quam probitate colas'. Professor E. Fantham suggests a
refinement: _titulis ... suis_ should be taken in the sense 'achievements
of his ancestors'. Compare Prop IV xi 32 'et domus est titulis utraque
fulta suis'.
=27. PAENE ATRIA.= Heinsius preferred PENETRALIA, the reading of _I_ and
_F2_ ('sed ne sic quidem locus mihi uidetur plane in integrum
restitutus'), apparently objecting to _paene_. The word seems weak
enough, especially in view of Virgil _G_ I 49 'illius immensae
_ruperunt_ horrea messes', but Professor R. J. Tarrant points out to me
a similarly weak _paene_ at _Tr_ III xi 13-14 'sic ego belligeris a
gentibus undique saeptus / terreor, hoste meum paene premente latus'.
Burman conjectured LAETA and PLENA; neither seems very convincing.
For _atria_ compare _Her_ XVI 185-86 'occurrent denso tibi Troades
agmine matres, / nec capient Phrygias _atria_ nostra nurus'.
_Penetralia_, although poorly attested, is in itself appropriate enough,
since the new consul began his magistracy in front of his _penates_:
Festus (Mueller 208; Lindsay 231) defined the _penetralia_ as the
'penatium deorum sacraria'.
=28. ET POPVLVM LAEDI DEFICIENTE LOCO.= The jostling of a crowd similarly
described at _Am_ III ii 21-22 'tu tamen a dextra, quicumque es, parce
puellae; / contactu lateris laeditur ista tui'.
=29-34.= The new consul, accompanied by lictors, left his house and went
in solemn procession to the Capitoline, where he took his place on the
curule chair, and then sacrificed to Iuppiter Optimus Maximus. A meeting
of the Senate followed, held in the temple of Jupiter.
At ix 17-32 Ovid gives a similar description of the consul's entering on
his office.
=29. TARPEIAE ... SEDIS.= _Capitolinus_ is metrically awkward; hence the
synecdoche from the _Tarpeia rupes_, the part of the Capitoline from
which criminals were hurled. Similar tropes at viii 42 'uictima Tarpeios
inficit icta focos', ix 29 'at cum Tarpeias esses deductus in arces',
and commonly in the poets.
=30. FACILES IN TVA VOTA.= 'Receptive to your prayers'; for this frequent
sense of _facilis_ compare _Her_ XII 84 'sed mihi tam _faciles_ unde
meosque deos?', _Met_ V 559 'optastis _facilesque_ deos habuistis', _Tr_
IV i 53 'sint precor hae [the Muses] saltem _faciles_ mihi', _EP_ II ii
19-20 'esse ... fateor ... _difficilem_ precibus te quoque iure meis',
_Her_ XVI 282 'sic habeas _faciles in tua uota deos_', and Grattius 426.
=31-32.= The asyndeton in this distich is odd, given the preceding series
of connectives. If the text is unsound, however, alteration of _certae_
to _certant_ (Damsté) or _cerno_ (Owen) is not the cure. By using
_certae_ Ovid is indicating that there will be a clean blow with the
axe, a good omen for the coming year. For the opposite omen, see _Aen_
II 222-24 (describing Laocoon) 'clamores simul horrendos ad sidera
tollit: / qualis mugitus, fugit cum saucius aram / taurus et _incertam_
excussit ceruice securim'.
=31-32. BOVES NIVEOS ... QVOS ALVIT CAMPIS HERBA FALISCA SVIS.= Compare
_Am_ III xiii 13-14 'ducuntur _niueae_ populo plaudente _iuuencae_, /
_quas aluit campis herba Falisca suis_' and _Fast_ I 83-84 (a
description of the sacrifices on January 1st) '_colla_ rudes operum
_praebent_ ferienda iuuenci, / _quos aluit campis herba Falisca suis_'.
=33-34. CVMQVE DEOS OMNES, TVM QVOS IMPENSIVS AEQVOS / ESSE TIBI CVPIAS,
CVM IOVE CAESAR ERVNT.= _Cupias_ must be supplied with _deos omnes_--'You
will wish the favour of all the gods; those gods whose favour you will
particularly wish will be Caesar and Jupiter'. The omission of the verb
from the _cum_-clause seems very strange, however, and Ehwald (_KB_
63-64) is possibly correct in supposing a distich to have fallen from
the text after 32; in this case, _cumque deos omnes_ is probably far
removed from its original form.
=33. OMNES, TVM QVOS.= Ehwald wished to read OMNES, TVNC HOS (_P_ reads
TVNC HOS ORES), _hos_ referring to the gods of the Capitol who had been
named in the distich missing after 32; but this would leave _cum Ioue
Caesar erunt_ without a predicate.
=33. AEQVOS.= 'Favourable'; compare _Her_ I 23 'sed bene consuluit casto
deus _aequus_ amori'; _Tr_ I ii 6 '_aequa_ Venus Teucris, Pallas
_iniqua_ fuit', _Tr_ III xiv 29 '_aequus_ erit scriptis', and _Tr_ IV i
25.
=35. E MORE VOCATI.= 'Convened, as is traditional'. After the sacrifice on
the Capitoline, the new consul addressed the assembled Senate; compare
Livy XXVI 26 5 'M. Marcellus cum idibus Martiis consulatum inisset,
senatum eo die _moris modo causa_ habuit ['held a session of the Senate
simply because it was traditional to do so']' and Livy XXI 63 8 'ne die
initi magistratus Iouis optimi maximi templum adiret, ne senatum inuisus
ipse et sibi uni inuisum uideret consuleretque'.
=36. INTENDENT AVRES.= The expression is not found elsewhere in Ovid, or
in Virgil; but compare Manilius II 511 'at nudus Geminis _intendit_
Aquarius _aurem_'. The expression is presumably an extension of _oculos
(aciem) intendere_, for which see Cic _Tusc_ IV 38, _Ac_ II 80, and Tac
_Ann_ IV 70.
=37. FACVNDO TVA VOX ... ORE.= For Pompeius' eloquence, Némethy cites Val
Max II vi 8 '_facundissimo_ ... sermone, qui ore eius quasi e beato
quodam eloquentiae fonte manabat' and IV vii ext 2 'clarissimi ac
_disertissimi_ uiri'.
=37. HILARAVERIT.= The verb is rare and elevated in tone. Compare Cic
_Brut_ 44 (of Pericles' oratory) 'huius suauitate maxime hilaratae
Athenae sunt', Catullus LXIII 18, and _Ecl_ V 69.
=38. VTQVE SOLET, TVLERIT PROSPERA VERBA DIES.= Compare _Fast_ I 175-76
(Ovid to Janus) '"at cur _laeta_ tuis dicuntur _uerba_ Kalendis, / et
damus alternas accipimusque preces?"'.
=40.= Riese's punctuation 'facias cur ita, saepe dabit' seems preferable
to the alternate 'facias cur ita saepe, dabit', as placing more emphasis
on Augustus and being perhaps an echo of _Tr_ IV ii 12 'munera det
meritis, _saepe datura_, deis'.
=42. OFFICIVM POPVLI= = _populum officium facientem_; the same metonymy at
_Met_ XV 691-93 (of Aesculapius) 'restitit hic agmenque suum _turbaeque
sequentis_ / _officium_ placido uisus dimittere uultu / corpus in
Ausonia posuit rate'.
=44. NEC POTERVNT ISTIS LVMINA NOSTRA FRVI.= Other non-personal subjects
at Cic _Am_ 45 (_animus_) and ps-Quint _Decl_ VII 10 'uulneribus illis
non fruentur _oculi_'. In all of these passages the transition from an
expressed personal subject to a faculty or part of the personality seems
fairly natural.
=45. QVAMLIBET= is a correction by Heinsius: 'far away as you might be
...'. The QVOD (QVA) LICET of most manuscripts anticipates the following
_qua possum_, contrary to Ovid's practice.
=45. QVA POSSVM, MENTE.= A commonplace of the poems of exile: compare ix
41-42 'mente tamen, quae sola domo non exulat, usus / praetextam fasces
aspiciamque tuos', _Tr_ III iv 56, _Tr_ IV ii 57 'haec ego summotus
_qua possum mente uidebo_', _EP_ I viii 34 'cunctaque mens oculis
peruidet usa suis', _EP_ II iv 8, _EP_ II x 47, and _EP_ III v 47-48.
=47. SVBEAT TIBI.= See at xv 30 _subeant animo_ (p 440).
V. To Sextus Pompeius
The poem was written shortly after Pompeius' accession to the consulship
(compare 4 'tectaque brumali sub niue terra latet' and 24 'deque _parum
noto_ consulet officio'). It takes the form of a set of instructions to
the poem on what it should do when it reaches Rome. Ovid tells the poem
it should look for Pompeius, and includes a short description of some of
the consular functions Pompeius might be carrying out (1-26). He then
instructs the poem in what it is to say to Pompeius: it should describe
to him Ovid's gratitude for past and present services, and promise
(using several _adynata_ as illustrations) that this gratitude will be
eternal (27-46).
A close parallel to this poem is furnished by _Tr_ III vii, in which
Ovid tells the poem where it is to seek his stepdaughter Perilla and
what it is to say to her. Similar personifications are found in _Tr_ I
i, in which Ovid gives instructions to his book on what it should do
when it reaches Rome and the prudence it should show, in _Tr_ III i,
where the book describes its arrival in Rome, in _Tr_ V iv, where the
letter tells of Ovid's misery and his loyalty to his friend, and in
Ovid's exhortation to his _elegi_ at _Fast_ II 3-6. The device is not
unique to Ovid, being found at Catullus XXXV, Hor _Ep_ I xx, and Statius
_Sil_ IV iv.
=1. LEVES ELEGI.= The same phrase at Am II i 21 'blanditias _elegosque
leues_, mea tela, resumpsi'.
=1. DOCTAS AD CONSVLIS AVRES.= 'To the ears of a consul who appreciates
poetry'. Compare Hor _Ep_ I xiii 17-18 'carmina quae possint oculos
_aurisque_ morari / Caesaris' and Prop II xiii 11-12.
=2. HONORATO ... VIRO.= Dative of agent with _legenda_.
=2. HONORATO= refers specifically to Pompeius' consulship. _Honor_ is
often used with the restricted sense of 'magistracy'.
=3. LONGA VIA EST.= Compare _Tr_ I i 127-28 (the end of Ovid's
instructions to his book) 'longa uia est, propera! nobis habitabitur
orbis / ultimus, a terra terra remota mea'.
=3. LONGA VIA EST, NEC VOS PEDIBVS PROCEDITIS AEQVIS.= The _uia longa_ is
seen as a possible cause of the metre's lameness at _Tr_ III i 11-12.
=3. NEC ... PEDIBVS ... AEQVIS.= Ovid often mentions the alternating pattern
of elegiac verse: compare xvi 11 _numeris ... imparibus ... uel aequis_
and the passages there cited, _Am_ III i 8 (of Elegy) 'et, puto, pes
illi _longior alter_ erat', and _EP_ III iv 85-86 'ferre etiam molles
elegi tam uasta triumphi / pondera _disparibus_ non potuere _rotis_'.
=5. HAEMON= _Laurentianus 38 39 (saec xv), Ven. Marcianus XII 106 (saec
xv), editio princeps Bononiensis_ HAEMVM _BCMFHILT_. I follow Heinsius
and Burman in printing _Haemon_, in consideration of the preceding
_Thracen_: it seems neater to have both place-names in their Greek
forms. _Haemum_ is similarly the transmitted reading at _Met_ VI 87 (of
the tapestry created by Minerva) 'Threiciam Rhodopen habet angulus unus
et _Haemon_' and _Met_ X 76-77 (of Orpheus) 'in altam / se recipit
Rhodopen pulsumque Aquilonibus _Haemon_', the preferable _Haemon_ being
found only in certain late manuscripts.
=6. TRANSIERITIS.= In early Latin this would necessarily have been a
perfect subjunctive, the future perfect indicative being
_transieritis_ with the second 'i' short; but after Ennius and
Plautus the forms (like _-erIs_ and _-eris)_) are used
indifferently, according to metrical necessity. See Platnauer 56 and
Kühner-Stegmann I 115-16.
=7. LVCE MINVS DECIMA DOMINAM VENIETIS IN VRBEM.= '[Starting from
Brundisium] you will arrive in Rome before the tenth day'. The same
idiom at _Fast_ V 379 'nocte minus quarta promet sua sidera Chiron'.
=8. VT FESTINATVM NON FACIATIS ITER.= The trip would probably be not much
shorter than ten days. André cites Livy XXXVI 21 and Plutarch _Cato
maior_ 14 3 for Cato's five-day journey from Hydruntum (Livy; Hydruntum
is about seventy-five kilometres southeast of Brundisium) or Brundisium
(Plutarch) in 191 to announce the victory over Antiochus III at
Thermopylae; both authors mention the journey for its speed. The more
leisurely journey from Rome to Brundisium described in Hor _Sat_ I v
seems to have taken about fifteen days; see Palmer on I v 103.
=9.= Either =PETETVR= (_FT_) or PETATVR (_BCMHIL_) is possible enough.
_Petetur_ seems the better reading in view of _uenietis_ (7) and _erit_
(16), the corruption perhaps having been induced by _faciatis_ in the
preceding line. But the jussive _petatur_ could be continuing from _ite_
in the first line; compare Statius _Sil_ IV iv 4-5 'atque ubi Romuleas
uelox penetraueris arces, / continuo dextras flaui _pete_ Thybridis
oras'.
=10. NON EST AVGVSTO IVNCTIOR VLLA FORO.= Compare xv 16 'quam domus [_sc_
tua] Augusto continuata foro'.
=11. SI QVIS VT IN POPULO.= 'If someone in the crowd'. This seems to be
the sense of _ut in populo_; Wheeler's translation 'as may happen in the
crowd' will work here and at _Tr_ I i 17-18 'si quis _ut in populo_
nostri non immemor illi [=_illic_], / si quis qui quid agam forte
requirat, erit', but not at _Tr_ II 157-58 'per patriam, quae te tuta et
secura parente est, / cuius _ut in populo_ pars ego nuper eram' or at
Hor _Sat_ I vi 78-80 (Horace describes his schooldays) 'uestem seruosque
sequentis / _in magno ut populo_ si qui uidisset, auita / ex re praeberi
sumptus mihi crederet illos'.
A similar idiom appears at _Tr_ II 231-32 'denique _ut in tanto_ quantum
non extitit umquam / _corpore_ pars nulla est quae labet imperii'
=11. QVI SITIS ET VNDE.= Similar phrasing at _Ilias Lat_ 554-55 'nomen
genusque roganti, / _qui sit et unde'_.
=12. NOMINA ... QVAELIBET ... FERAT.= _Ferat_ = 'receive as answer'. Compare
Livy V 32 8 '[M. Furius Camillus] cum accitis domum tribulibus
clientibusque ... percontatus animos eorum _responsum tulisset_ se
conlaturos quanti damnatus esset, absoluere eum non posse, in exilium
abiit' and XXI 19 11.