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Often appears with: textual variants · rank, class, and social order · ovid self-blame as error · justice as a virtue · equestrian status · doubt, skepticism, and certainty · counsel and advisers to rulers
Usually: commentary or gloss (1) · injustice endured (1) · detachment (1) · skepticism (1)
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*…