29. TARPEIAS ... IN ARCES. See at iv 29 Tarpeiae ... sedis ([p 208]).
30. DVM expresses purpose; if it were temporal, the verb would be cadit instead of caderet: compare 17-18 'dumque latus sancti cingit tibi turba senatus, / consulis ante pedes ire iuberer eques'.
31. SECRETO represents Ovid's response to the bidding fauete linguis. The word is frequent in comedy, but is very rare in verse, being virtually confined to satire (Hor Sat I ix 67, Juvenal I 95).
31-32. MAGNVS ... DEVS = Iuppiter Optimus Maximus. Compare AA II 540 'eris magni uictor in arce Iouis'.
33. TVRAQVE MENTE MAGIS PLENA QVAM LANCE DEDISSEM. The same notion of sincerity of feeling being more important than size of gifts at viii 35-40.
34. TER QVATER ... LAETVS. 'Infinitely happy'; compare Prop III xii 15 'ter quater in casta felix, o Postume, Galla!', Aen I 94 'o terque quaterque beati', AA II 447-48, and Tr III xii 25-26 'o quater et quotiens non est numerare beatum / non interdicta cui licet urbe frui!'. The phrase is common in Ovid, but he generally uses it to mean 'several times': compare Am III i 31-32 'mouit ... terque quaterque caput', Met II 49, Met IV 734 'ter quater exegit repetita per ilia ferrum', Met VI 133, Met IX 217, Met XII 288, Fast I 576, and Fast I 657 'ter quater euolui signantes tempora fastos'.
35. HIC. 'Hier auf dem Kapitol'—Ehwald (KB 65). The idiom is somewhat strange, but seems well enough supported by Met XIV 372-73 '"per o, tua lumina" dixit / "quae mea ceperunt, perque hanc, pulcherrime, formam"' and Her XVI 137, passages cited by R, J. Tarrant at Sen Ag 971 'dummodo hac ['your'] moriar manu'. Compare as well Prop I xi 17-18 'non quia perspecta non es mihi cognita fama, / sed quod in hac omnis parte ['at Baiae'] timetur [codd: ueretur Lachmann] amor' and Fedeli ad loc.
36. MITIA ... SI ... FATA DARENT. 'If the Fates had been kind, and given'.
36. VRBIS editio Aldina 1502 VERBIS codd. Ius urbis = ius urbis habitandae; compare Met XIII 471-72 'genetrici corpus inemptum / reddite, neue auro redimat ius triste sepulcri [=sepeliendi]'.
37-38. MENTE ... OCVLIS. Similarly contrasted at Met XV 62-64 'isque, licet caeli regione remotos, / mente deos adiit et, quae natura negarat ['Medic. rectius' (Heinsius): negabat codd] / uisibus humanis, oculis ea pectoris hausit'.