uerba

(Ovid to Janus) '"at cur _laeta_ tuis dicuntur _uerba_ Kalendis,/et damus alternas accipimusque preces?"'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Bentley conjectured AVERSO for _aduerso_, and the two words are obviously prone to interchange: compare _Tr_ I iii 45 (of Ovid's wife, after his departure) 'multaque in auersos [_Heinsius_: aduersos _codd_] effudit uerba Penates' and the variations among the manuscripts at

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

R.J. Tarrant plausibly suggests that Ovid may here be alluding to the plays by Varius and Gracchus on the theme with his words _cum ... darent fera uerba tyrannis_, Atreus being the archetype of the tyrant in tragedy.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

The idiom is different from the _et pudet et_ construction seen at xv 29 'et pudet et metuo [' I am both embarrassed and afraid '] semperque eademque precari' and _Tr_ V vii 57-58 'et pudet et fateor [' I confess with embarrassment '], iam desuetudine longa/uix subeunt ipsi uerba Latina mihi'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

As André points out, Ovid's statement here that his Latin poems have caused him difficulty in Tomis indicates that Latin was not as completely unknown in the city as Ovid claims at, for example, _Tr_ III xiv 47-48, V vii 53-54 'unus in hoc nemo est populo qui forte Latine/quamlibet [_Heinsius_: quaelibet _codd_] e medio reddere uerba queat' &

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

III i 148 'nil nisi _sollicitae_ sint tua uerba _preces_': for

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

_Burman, qui et_ plena atria _coniecit_ templaque Tarpeiae primum tibi sedis adiri et fieri faciles in tua uota deos, 30 colla boues niueos certae praebere securi, quos aluit campis herba Falisca suis, cumque deos omnes, tum quos impensius aequos esse tibi cupias, cum Ioue Caesar erunt. curia te excipiet, patresque e more uocati 35 intendent aures ad tua uerba suas. hos ubi facundo tua uox hilarauerit ore, utque solet tulerit prospera uerba dies,

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

From the classical period compare Sen _Apocol_ 11 3 'ad summam, tria uerba cito dicat, et seruum me ducat', Sen _Ep_ 40 9, and Quint IX iv 84 'haec omnia in tribus uerbis'; Camps sees _tres_ as having the same indefinite meaning at Prop II xiii 25-26 'sat mea sit magno [_Phillimore_: sit magna _uel_ sat magna est _codd_] si tres sint pompa libelli/quos ego Persephonae maxima dona feram'.

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

= 'Metre'; compare _Fast_ III 388 'ad _certos_ uerba canenda _modos_', Tib II i 51-52 'agricola ... primum ... cantauit _certo_ rustica uerba _pede_' and Manilius III 35 '_pedibus_ ... iungere

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid

Compare _Am_ III vii 11-12 'et mihi blanditias dixit dominumque uocauit,/et quae praeterea _publica_ uerba iuuant', _AA_ III 479-80 'munda, sed e medio consuetaque uerba, puellae,

The Last Poems of Ovid 43 BC-18? Ovid