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Often appears with: textual criticism · poetry and the poets · language, naming, and meaning · fate, destiny, and necessity · address in elegy
Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · skepticism (1)
The commentary argues that Ovid’s addressee cannot be Severus directly in this line and that earlier thoughts are being recalled, using quotation marks accordingly.
Ovid cannot have addressed these words in the first instance directly to Severus, but must here be recollecting his earlier thoughts. I have therefore placed the line in quotation marks. =15. NEC TAMEN.= 'This was the principal reason; a second reason, however, was that ...' =15. INGENIVM= = 'poetic talent', as often. Compare viii 66, xvi 2, *Tr* III vii 47, *EP* II ii 103, *EP* II v 21 (quoted at 20 _uena pauperio…