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65

Sparte quoque nescia vestri. [Trist. iii. 3. 26.]

66 Quas habites terras, aut ubi lentus agas?

82 Cogit, et invisas [xix. 210.]

113 Respice Laërten: ut tu sua lumina condas,

Versus 37, 38, 39, 40; 83, 84; 99, 100; 111, 112, 113, 114, pro spuriis habet.

Sabinus 53. Pacta quoque es thalamo nisi mendax tela moretur

Et cœptum revoces callida semper opus :

Hoc in hac Ep. deest. Vide Am. iii. 9. 30. Tardaque nocturno tela retexa dolo. Sabinus ii. 82.

27 Dic mihi quid feci? Si non sapienter amavi; Crimine, etc. 31 Pacta, fides,

35 Per mare Bistonium ventis agitatur et auris (vel æstu)

148 Ille necis [MSS. Dun. Rel.] caussam præbuit, ipsa manum. Abjudicentur vv. 17, 18; 35, 36.

EPIST. III.

1 Quam legis, a capta Briseïde [cf. 16. Rem. 469.]

11 Alter in alterius jactantes lumina vultus,

12 Quærebant taciti, vester ubi esset amor.

26 Non repetisse [sic MS. Rel. Dun.]

30 Auxerunt blandâ grandia dona prece:

39 Hoc tibi (vel sic tibi.)

Lege Ep. xvii. 2. (restitutum vide infra Emend. ad Epist. xvii.)

3

95

96

positis secesserat armis,

mente negárat opem.

98 At mea pollicito pondere verba carent. [vi. 110.] 100 Scilicet in Domini

59 Tertius Ægides [Ep. xvi. 328.]

67 Tempore, quo nobis

78 Ut levis egregio nævus in ore decent.

79 Sive fagacis equi

81 Seu lentum

86 Non sum materies digna vigore tuo. [Ep. vii. 34.]

101 Nos quoque jampridem

123

128 Quem fugat

quos tamen olim

137 Nec labor est celare virum: pete munus ab illo. [Fast. iv. 149.]

141

149

per tenebras duri

humilisque vocari.

150 Heu! ubi nunc flatus, altaque verba? jacent.

151 At pugnare

155 Depudii; profugusque pudor sua signa reliquit.

160 Purpureum rapido qui vehi axe diem?

169 Sic tibi (venanti [subaudi?]

170 Silvaque prædendas

175 Addimus his precibus lachrymis quoque :

176 Perlege; sed lachrymas

Abjudicentur versus 175, 176.

45

62

68 Fæmineos (vel

classe parata,

nostros pressisti flentis ocellos;

æquoreiis ille residit aquis. [cf. x. 25.]

fæmineum) vidi, corde tremente, greges (vel gregem.)

29

timidumque Deos jurare coëgi.

37 Restabat serpens [Met. i. 700; ii. 655. Fast. v. 361.]

55

(MS. D. ñra; MS. Rel. facta post rasura.)

pellere transtra manu.

virum vidua lectoque animoque recepi : [ii. 57.]

58 Implêsti lacrymis talia verba suis [Met. xiii. 586.-cf. xx. 76.]