(21-24)
He then attempts to compensate for the boldness of his request. First he says that his appeal is unnecessary:
nec dubitans oro; sed flumine saepe secundo
augetur remis cursus euntis aquae.
(27-38)
Then he apologizes for making such constant requests:
et pudet et metuo semperque eademque precari
ne subeant animo taedia iusta tuo
(29-30)
He ends the poem with a return to the topic of the benefits Pompeius has already rendered him.
The letter to Suillius addressing Germanicus
No poem in the fourth book of the Ex Ponto is addressed to a member of the imperial family, but the greater part of IV viii, nominally addressed to Suillius, is in fact directed to his patron Germanicus. Suillius' family ties with Ovid and his influential position would have made it natural for Ovid to address him in the earlier books of the Ex Ponto or even in the Tristia; and it is clear from the opening of the poem that Suillius must have distanced himself from Ovid: