44. LANGVIDIORQVE VENIT. Compare EP II i 1-2 'Huc quoque Caesarei peruenit fama triumphi, / languida quo fessi uix uenit aura Noti'.
46. AB AMNE. Similar instrumental uses of ab at Her X 138 'tunicas lacrimis sicut ab imbre graues', AA III 545 'ingenium placida mollitur ab arte', Met I 65-66 'contraria tellus / nubibus assiduis pluuiaque madescit ab Austro', Met IV 162-63 'pectus ... adhuc a caede tepebat', and Fast V 323 'caelum nigrescit ab Austris'.
47-58. For the lengthy catalogue, typical of Ovid, compare the listing of Actaeon's dogs at Met III 206-25 (in particular at 217 'et Dromas et Canache Sticteque et Tigris et Alce') and the catalogue of trees that came to listen to Orpheus sing (Met X 90-107).
47. LYCVS. A number of rivers had this name in the ancient world. Ovid presumably means the Paphlagonian Lycus referred to by Virgil at G IV 366-67 'omnia sub magna labentia flumina terra / spectabat diuersa locis, Phasimque Lycumque ...'.
47. SAGARIS. The modern Sakarya; it flows into the Black Sea about 125 kilometres east of Istanbul. It is mentioned at Pliny NH VI 1 4 'Sangaris fluuius ex inclutis. oritur in Phrygia, accipit uastos amnes ... idem Sagiarius plerisque dictus'.
47. PENIVSQVE. The 'flumen et oppidum Penius' are mentioned at Pliny NH VI 14 as being in the region of the Caucasus on the Euxine coast; nearby were 'multis nominibus Heniochorum gentes'. The river seems not to be mentioned elsewhere in ancient literature.
47. HYPANISQVE. The modern Bug empties into the Black Sea about 50 kilometres east of Odessa. It is mentioned again by Ovid at Met XV 285-86 'quid? non et Scythicis Hypanis de montibus ortus, / qui fuerat dulcis, salibus uitiatur amaris?' and Virgil G IV 370 'saxosumque sonans Hypanis'.
47. CALESQVE. Isaac Vossius made this correction for the manuscripts' CATESQVE (I has CHARESQVE) on the basis of 'Eustathio Scholiis in Periegeten'. Heinsius aptly cited a description of the occasionally violent flow of the river at Thucydides IV 75 2.
As indicated by this passage, the modern Alapli flows into the Black Sea near Ereğli, about 200 kilometres east of Istanbul.
48. CREBRO VERTICE TORTVS HALYS. An imitation of Aen VII 566-67 'fragosus / dat sonitum saxis et torto uertice torrens'. Tortus when used of water generally refers to the disturbance caused by rowing (Fast V 644; Catullus LXIV 13; Aen III 208).