9. LVCTVS = causae luctus. Other instances of this sense of luctus, which seems to be confined to poetical passages of great emotional content, at Met I 654-55 (Inachus to Io) 'tu non inuenta reperta / luctus eras leuior', Met IX 155, and Aen VI 868 (Aeneas has just seen Marcellus) 'o nate, ingentem luctum ne quaere tuorum'.
10. LECTAQVE CVM LACRIMIS SVNT TVA DAMNA MEIS. Compare EP I ix 1-2 (quoted above at 5 rapti) and Fam IV v 1 (Ser. Sulpicius Rufus to Cicero) 'Postea quam mihi renuntiatum est de obitu Tulliae, filiae tuae, sane quam pro eo ac debui grauiter molesteque tuli communemque eam calamitatem existimaui'.
10. TVA DAMNA. Compare Fast II 835-36 (Lucretia has just killed herself) 'ecce super corpus communia damna gementes / obliti decoris uirque paterque iacent' and Tr IV iii 35 'tu uero tua damna dole, mitissima coniunx'.
11. SED NEQVE SOLARI PRVDENTEM STVLTIOR AVSIM. Compare Fam IV v 6 'plura me ad te de hac re scribere pudet, ne uidear prudentiae tuae diffidere'. For the opposite reasoning, see Sen Cons Marc 1 1 'Nisi te, Marcia, scirem tam longe ab infirmitate muliebris animi quam a ceteris uitiis recessisse et mores tuos uelut aliquod antiquum exemplar aspici, non auderem obuiam ire dolori tuo'.
12. VERBAQVE DOCTORVM NOTA. Compare EP I iii 27-30 (to Rufinus, who has written him a letter of consolation on his exile) 'cum bene firmarunt animum praecepta iacentem, / sumptaque sunt nobis pectoris arma tui, / rursus amor patriae ratione ualentior omni, / quod tua fecerunt scripta retexit opus', and Sen Cons Marc 2 1 'scio a praeceptis incipere omnes qui monere aliquem uolunt, in exemplis desinere'.
13-14. FINITVMQVE TVVM ... DOLOREM / IPSA IAM PRIDEM SVSPICOR ESSE MORA. Compare EP I iii 25-26 'cura quoque interdum nulla medicabilis arte est— / aut, ut sit, longa est extenuanda mora', Fam IV v 6 'nullus dolor est quem non longinquitas temporis minuat ac molliat', and Cons Marc 8 1 'dolorem dies longa consumit'. For a variation of the theme, see Cons Marc 1 6 'illud ipsum naturale remedium temporis, quod maximas quoque aerumnas componit, in te una uim suam perdidit'.
The topic of time as the healer of pain is common in ancient literature from New Comedy on: see Tarrant on Sen Ag 130 'quod ratio non quiit, saepe sanauit mora', Otto dies 6, and Kassel 53.
13. SI NON RATIONE. Ratio similarly used to counter strong emotion (without success) at EP I iii 27-30 (quoted at 12), Met VII 10-11 (Medea falls in love with Jason) 'ratione furorem / uincere non poterat', and Met XIV 701-2 (similar phrasing for Iphis' falling in love with Anaxarete).
14. IPSA ... MORA. 'By the mere passage of time'.
15-16. DVM TVA PERVENIENS, DVM LITTERA NOSTRA RECVRRENS / TOT MARIA AC TERRAS PERMEAT, ANNVS ABIT. Similar phrasing at EP III iv 59-60 'dum uenit huc rumor properataque carmina fiunt / factaque eunt ad uos, annus abisse potest'.