The same use of carpere at ix 121-22 'fortuna est impar animo, talique libenter / exiguas carpo munere pauper opes' and Am I viii 91 'et soror et mater, nutrix quoque carpat amantem'.
34. NASO SVIS OPIBVS, CARMINE, GRATVS ERIT. Compare Am II xvii 27 'sunt mihi pro magno felicia carmina censu' and Am I iii entire.
37. QVAM POTVIT ... MAXIMA. For the idiom compare Cic Fam XIII vi 5 'quam maximas ... gratias agat' and ND II 129 'gallinae ['hens'] ... cubilia sibi nidosque construunt eosque quam possunt mollissime substernunt'.
37. GRATVS ABVNDE EST. Apparently the only instance in classical poetry of abunde modifying an adjective. The prose authors cited by the lexica are Sallust, Livy, Valerius Maximus, Curtius, the elder Pliny, and Quintilian. Abunde elsewhere in Ovid only at Met XV 759 'humano generi, superi, fauistis abunde!' and Tr I vii 31 'laudatus abunde'.
38. FINEM PIETAS CONTIGIT ILLA SVVM. 'That act of piety has reached its objective', that is, has made the giver gratus.
39-42. For the sentiment compare EP III iv 81-82 'haec [sc laudanda uoluntas] facit ut ueniat pauper quoque gratus ad aras, / et placeat caeso non minus agna boue'.
41-42. GRAMINE PASTA FALISCO / VICTIMA TARPEIOS INFICIT ICTA FOCOS. Compare iv 29-32 'templaque Tarpeiae primum tibi sedis adiri ... colla boues niueos certae praebere securi, / quos aluit campis herba Falisca suis'.
42. INFICIT. 'Stain'. Inficere in the context of a sacrifice also at Met XV 134-35 '[uictima ...] percussa ... sanguine cultros / inficit' and Hor Carm III xiii 6.
44. PRINCIPIBVS ... VIRIS. A fixed colloquial idiom: OLD princeps1 5 cites Plautus Amphitruo 204 'delegit uiros primorum principes' and Hor Ep I xvii 35 'principibus placuisse uiris non ultima laus est'. There was a parallel expression principes feminae: see Pliny NH VIII 119 and Tac Ann XIII 42 (Suillius compares himself to Seneca) 'an grauius aestimandum sponte litigatoris praemium honestae operae adsequi quam corrumpere cubicula principum feminarum?'.
45. CARMINA VESTRARVM PERAGVNT PRAECONIA LAVDVM. Praeconia in a similar context at Tr II 65 'inuenies uestri praeconia nominis illic [in the Metamorphoses]'; used with peragere at Tr V i 9 'ut cecidi, subiti perago praeconia casus'.