FOOTNOTES:
[1] The evidence for Ovid's error and the many theories advanced to explain it are gathered and fully discussed in J. C. Thibault's The Mystery of Ovid's Exile (Berkeley: 1964).
[2] For these references I am indebted to page xxxv of A. L. Wheeler's excellent introduction to the Loeb edition of the Tristia and Ex Ponto. For the date of Tiberius' triumph, see Syme History in Ovid 40.
[3] Professor Tarrant notes however that unlike I-III the fourth book was not written within a very short time; if Ovid had collected what he thought worth publishing of his output over several years, it would not be surprising to find it longer than the preceding collections.
[4] Professor E. Fantham notes as well the central placement of poem ix, with its laudes Augusti.
[5] Full information on what is known of each of the addressees will be found in the introductions to the poems in the commentary.
[6] Ovid had used a similar technique in Tr I i, where he gives his book instructions for its voyage to Rome, including directions on how it should approach Augustus.
[7] Professor R. J. Tarrant points out to me in particular that lines 63-64 on the apotheosis of Augustus being in part accomplished through poetry are one of the few instances in the poetry of exile of Ovid's earlier mischievous irony towards Augustus—a sign of a return on Ovid's part to his earlier form.
[8] However, Albinovanus' poem on Germanicus' campaigns may have had a strong geographical element; as Professor E. Fantham notes, Ovid may here be appealing to this interest, or demonstrating competitive skill in handling the topic.
[9] The manuscripts were probably produced at the same German centre. Professor R. J. Tarrant has noted the presence of the Ex Ponto in book-lists of the eleventh and early twelfth centuries from Blaubeuern, Tegernsee, Bamberg, Egmond, and Cracow (Texts and Transmission 263); he suggests Tegernsee to me as a probable candidate for the production of B and C.
[10] G. P. Goold ("Amatoria Critica", HSPh 69 [1965] 10) has an interesting discussion of the problems in establishing Ovid's orthography. For accusative plural endings in the third declension, he concludes that -is for Ovid can be neither established nor excluded.
[11] In recent years much progress has been made in identifying the manuscripts Heinsius used. See the monograph of Munari and the articles of Reeve and Lenz listed in the bibliography.
[12] Electa minora ex Ovidio, Tibullo et Propertio, London, 1705. The book was reprinted as late as 1860 (Brit. Mus. Gen. Catalogue, vol. 177, col. 470). I quote some of the notes on x in the commentary and apparatus.
[13] 'Diligenter autem et religiose tractaui codicem et singulas epistolas bis, et in locis uexatis saepius contuli. Neque tamen, quae hominum est imbecillitas, aciem oculorum quaedam effugisse, negabo' (xi-xii).
[14] A. Grafton has noted that Heinsius' publisher Elzevier seems to have been unwilling to alter the text as it already existed (JRS LXVII [1977], 173). I owe my knowledge of Heinsius' editorial practices as here described to Professor R. J. Tarrant, who has examined the Harvard copies of the 1664 edition of Heinsius' text (without notes), the 1670 Leiden edition of Bernard Cnippingius, which reproduces Heinsius' notes, and the 1663 reprint of Daniel Heinsius' edition.
[15] Consequently any statements I make on Heinsius' editorial practices are based on explicit statements in his notes.
[16] My knowledge of the manuscript is drawn from André's apparatus.
[17] He collated four other manuscripts, M, Bernensis bibl. munic. 478, Diuionensis bibl. munic. 497, and British Library Burney 220, but gives their readings only occasionally.
[18] These figures are taken from Platnauer 17 and from page vii of Riese's preface to his edition.
[19] A drinking-vessel holding one third of a sextarius (OLD triens 3).
[20] Compare Suet Aug 89 3 'componi tamen aliquid de se nisi et serio et a praestantissimis offendebatur, admonebatque praetores ne paterentur nomen suum commissionibus obsolefieri ['be cheapened in prize declamations'—Rolfe]'.
[21] PIR1 A 343; PIR2 A 479; PW 1,1 1314 21-40; Schanz-Hosius II 266 (§315); Bardon 69-73.
[22] Macrobius does include the explanation for the freezing-over. In view of his fuller account, I believe that Macrobius drew his material from Gellius' source and not from Gellius. It is of course possible enough that Macrobius conflated Gellius with another source.
[23] This seems the best solution to the awkwardness of the line as currently printed. Gellius IX xiv 21 gives two examples of dative facie from Lucilius. Plautus regularly uses fide (Aul 667, Pers 193, Poen 890, Trin 117) and die (Am 546, Capt 464, Trin 843); dative pube is found at Pseud 126. Sallust and Caesar use fide (Iug 16 3; BG V 3 7); at the time of Germanicus, fide is found at Hor Sat I iii 94-95 'quid faciam si furtum fecerit, aut si / prodiderit commissa fide sponsumue negarit?', and pernicie at Livy V 13 5.
[24] PIR1 I 493; PIR2 I 756; PW X,l 1035 26; Schanz-Hosius 349 (§ 336)
[25] Instances at Her VI 99, Am I xiv 13 & II vii 23, AA II 675, III 81 & III 539, Met XIII 117, XIII 854 & XIV 684, Fast III 143, III 245 & VI 663, Tr I v 79, II 135, V x 43, V xii 21 & V xiv 15, EP I vii 31, II xi 23, III ii 103, III iv 45, III vi 35, IV x 45, the present passage, and IV xiv 45. (Ovid's imitator uses the expression at Her XVII 199.) The preponderance of this presumably colloquial expression in the poems of exile is noteworthy.
[26] PIR1 T 314; PW VII A,2 1611 62; Schanz-Hosius 272 (§ 318 16)
[27] Honestus XXI 1-2 Gow-Page (Garland of Philip); discussed by Professor Jones at HSCP 74 (1970) 249-55.
[28] PW XV,2 1481 3; Jacoby FGrH no. 184.
[29] PIR1 D 131; PIR2 D 153; Schanz-Hosius 174-76 (§ 275-76); Bardon 52-57.
[30] PIR1 P 473; Syme HO 73-74; Bardon 65-66; J. Schwartz, "Pompeius Macer et la jeunesse d'Ovide", RPh XXV (1951) 182-94. Macer is discussed in the section of Schanz-Hosius dealing with Ovid's catalogue of poets (269-72; § 318); I give references to Schanz-Hosius below only for poets dealt with outside this section.
[31] PIR1 A 1236; PIR2 A 1488; PW 11,2 2490 13