121. FORTVNA EST IMPAR ANIMO. Similar phrasing at Tr V v 46-47 (on his wife's birthday) 'at non sunt ista gaudia nata die, / sed labor et curae fortunaque moribus impar'; but note the different sense of fortuna.
121. FORTVNA. 'My means' (Wheeler). The sense is rare but classical; OLD fortuna 12 cites among other passages Cic Fam XIV 4 2 'periculum fortunarum ['possessions'] et capitis sui' and Caes BG V 43 4.
122. CARPO ... OPES. For the sense of carpo see at viii 32 carpsit opes ... meas ([p 266]).
126. ILLVM CMFHILTB2 ILLI B1. Either accusative or dative would be acceptable enough with latere. The earliest instances from verse given by TLL VII.2 997 49 are Lucretius III 280 for the dative and Aen I 130 for the accusative. I retain the accusative because it is the reading of most manuscripts, including B's close relative C. There are similar variants involving the object of latere at Fast V 361: the accusative given by most manuscripts is generally read in preference to the dative.
127-29. TV ... TV. For the anaphora of tu in hymns or solemn prayer, see the passages collected by Nisbet and Hubbard at Hor Carm I x 9 and by Tarrant at Sen Ag 311.
127. SVPERIS ASCITE. Asciscere is generally used of admission to the citizenship or to the Senate: for parallels to the metaphorical use here, see Tarrant at Sen Ag 812-13 'tuus ille bis seno meruit labore / adlegi caelo magnus Alcides'.
128. Causal VT ['ex ueteribus' Naugerius] seems an appropriate correction for the manuscripts' lame ET.
129-30. NOSTRAS ... PRECES. The hyperbaton adds elevation and dignity to the prayer.
129-30. INTER CONVEXA ... SIDERA = inter sidera conuexi caeli; the hypallage adds further to the elevation of the passage. For conuexa compare Festus (58 Muller; 51 Lindsay) 'conuexum est ex omni parte declinatum, qualis est natura caeli, quod ex omni parte ad terram uersum declinatum est', Met I 26 'ignes conuexi uis et sine pondere caeli', Ecl IV 50, and Cic Arat 560 (314). In particular compare Aen I 607-8, which Ovid is clearly imitating: 'dum montibus umbrae / lustrabunt, conuexa polus dum sidera pascet'. There is some question as to whether conuexa should there be taken with sidera, or as the object of lustrabunt: Ovid clearly took it with sidera.
130. SOLLICITO QVAS DAMVS ORE PRECES. For the general wording compare Tr III viii 20 'tum quoque sollicita mente rogandus erit' and EP III i 148 'nil nisi sollicitae sint tua uerba preces': for sollicito ... ore compare sollicita uoce at Met X 639 & XIV 706.