61-62. SIC VICTOR LAVDEM SVPERATIS LIBER AB INDIS ... TRAXIT. Bacchus' conquest of India is also mentioned by Ovid at Fast III 465-66 'interea Liber depexos crinibus Indos / uicit et Eoo diues ab orbe redit', Fast III 719-20, and Tr V iii 23-24.
61-62. VICTOR should be taken both with Liber and Alcides.
61-62. LIBER ... ALCIDES. The same pairing (both times in the context of Augustan panegyric) at Aen VI 801-5 'nec uero Alcides tantum telluris obiuit, / fixerit aeripedem ceruam licet, aut Erymanthi / pacarit nemora et Lernam tremefecerit arcu; / nec qui pampineis uictor iuga flectit habenis / Liber, agens celso Nysae de uertice tigris' and Hor Carm III iii 9-15. Ovid may have made similar mention of Bacchus and Hercules in his panegyric of Augustus.
61-62. SIC ... LAVDEM ... ALCIDES CAPTA TRAXIT AB OECHALIA. Hercules attacked and captured Oechalia in order to carry off Iole, the king's daughter. This was his last exploit, for it led to Deianira's sending him the poisoned robe which caused his death. The capture of Oechalia is also mentioned at Her IX passim (the poem perhaps not by Ovid) and Met IX 136-40.
62. OECHALIA. For the quadrisyllable ending to the pentameter, see at ii 10 Alcinoo ([p 164]).
63. AVVM. Augustus. In AD 4 Augustus adopted Tiberius (son of Livia's first husband, Ti. Claudius Nero), and Tiberius adopted Germanicus, son of his brother Drusus.
63. QVEM VIRTVS ADDIDIT ASTRIS. Compare Aen VIII 301 (of Hercules) 'salue, uera Iouis proles, decus addite diuis'.
Augustus died on 19 August AD 14; on 17 September the Senate decreed caelestes religiones for him (Tac Ann I 10 8; Fasti Amiternini, Antiates, & Oppiani, at Ehrenberg-Jones 52). Augustus' apotheosis is also mentioned at ix 127-32 and xiii 23-26.
64. ALIQVA ... PARTE. The same phrase in the same metrical position at Fast I 133-34 (Janus speaking) 'uis mea narrata est. causam nunc disce figurae: / iam tamen hanc aliqua tu quoque parte uides'.
64. CARMINA. Ovid is referring to his own poems (in Latin and Getic) on Augustus' apotheosis, also mentioned at vi 17-18 'de caelite ... recenti ... carmen', ix 131-32 'carmina ... de te ... caelite ... nouo', and xiii 25-26.