adynata

= The personal reference in the last element of the series of _adynata_ is a clear break with the conventions of the topic.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

= The set of _adynata_ is remarkable for the way Ovid makes each of them relate to his own hardships; even Boreas and Notus have a specific connection, since Ovid complains so often of the climate of Tomis.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

= Ovid uses the common device of listing _adynata_; the second version of the device at _Tr_ I viii 1-10, where Ovid says that now his friend has betrayed him he expects to see the _adynata_ occur.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

= Compare the listing of _adynata_ at the end of v (41-44), which again illustrates Ovid's eternal gratitude (to Sextus Pompeius).

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Comprehensive listings of _adynata_ in ancient literature given by Smith on Tib I iv 65-66, Shackleton Bailey on Prop I xv 29, Nisbet and Hubbard on Hor _Carm_ I ii 9, xxix 10 & xxxiii 7, and by Gow on Theocritus I

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

I. 91, quoted by Blomfield: [Greek: tên peprômenên moirên adynata esti apophygeein kai tô theô].

Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes 525 BC-456 BC Aeschylus 1840

Here on fol. 24 a we find _adynata_, where [Greek: adunata] would have been in Campion's epistolary manner.

Ten Reasons Proposed to His Adversaries for Disputation in the Name of the Faith and Presented to the Illustrious Members of Our Universities Edmund Campion 1560

(using several _adynata_ as illustrations) that this gratitude will be eternal (27-46).

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid