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The commentator weighs whether lines 113–116 about the Pontic “earth” repeated twice are an interpolation, and discusses readings around “ora/ara,” “longa,” the pronoun “is,” and names and offices like “praeses” in Ovid’s poem.
=113-14.= Williams suggested deleting this distich: 'The distance between *Tota* and *Pontica terra*, the use of *licet*=if, and *Pontica terra* immediately followed by *Pontica tellus*, point to an interpolation'. The hyperbaton of *tota ... Pontica terra* seems standard enough. Wheeler translates *licet quaeras* as 'you are free to inquire', which may be right; however, the phrase does indeed seem awkward, and *li…