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Often appears with: rank, class, and social order · doubt, skepticism, and certainty · wordplay with excutias · vestalis poetic praise · textual variants · textual emendation · ovid self-blame as error · kinship, lineage, and clan · justice as a virtue · counsel and advisers to rulers · classical literary parallels · books, libraries, and learning
Usually: commentary or gloss (2) · injustice endured (1) · curiosity (1) · detachment (1) · skepticism (1)
The editor continues detailed textual and interpretive notes for Vestalis, covering examples from classical literature, genealogical status claims, and the meaning of phrases about military action and praise.
=27. FLVMINEA ... VNDA.= *Flumineus* does not occur elsewhere in the *Tristia* or *Ex Ponto*; *fluminea ... aqua* at *Fast* II 46 & 596. =27. VITELLIVS.= This Vitellius is presumably one of the four sons of Publius Vitellius, grandfather of the emperor. Suetonius wrote of the sons, Aulus, Quintus, Publius, and Lucius, that they were 'quattuor filios amplissimae dignitatis cognomines ac tantum praenominibus distincto…
Continuing the Suillius/Germanicus commentary, the editor treats textual and social claims about equestrian heredity, explains wordplay (excute/excutias), and discusses how Ovid frames his own fault as an error rather than a deeper moral stain.
by the familiar image of the blind goddess, replacing an original SAEVA (Riese) or LAEVA, for which compare Silius III 93-94 'si promissum uertat *Fortuna* fauorem, / _laeuaque sit coeptis_'. =17-18. SEV GENVS EXCVTIAS, EQVITES AB ORIGINE PRIMA / VSQVE PER INNVMEROS INVENIEMVR AVOS.= A similar claim at *Tr* IV x 7-8 'usque a proauis uetus ordinis heres, / non modo fortunae munere factus eques'. The status of *eques*…