15-16. TALIA SVSCENSENT PROPTER MIHI VERBA TOMITAE, / IRAQVE CARMINIBVS PVBLICA MOTA MEIS. For the similar omission of the est of a perfect passive, even in the presence of a parallel finite verb, see Met VII 517-18 'Aeacus ingemuit tristique ita uoce locutus: / "flebile principium melior fortuna secuta est"'.
15. SVSCENSENT. The word is foreign to high poetry. It occurs in Ovid only here and at EP III i 89-90 'nec mihi suscense, totiens si carmine nostro / quod facis ut facias teque imitere rogo'; the only instances from other poetry cited at OLD suscenseo are from Her XVI-XXI and Martial.
SVSCENSENT is the spelling of C; the other manuscripts have SVCCENSENT. I print susc- because that is the spelling given by the ninth-century Hamburg manuscript at EP III i 89 (cited above), where most manuscripts offer succ-. Succ- is, however, quite possibly correct, for although susc- is the spelling of the ancient manuscripts of Plautus and Terence (and of the older manuscripts of the Heroides), succ- is found at Livy XLII 46 8 in the fifth-century Vienna codex.
18. PLECTAR. Similar uses at Tr III v 49 'inscia quod crimen uiderunt lumina, plector' and EP III iii 64 (Ovid to Amor) 'meque loco plecti commodiore uelit'.
18. AB INGENIO is parallel to per carmina in the preceding line; for the idiom, see at x 46 ab amne ([p 346]).
20. TELAQVE ... QVAE NOCVERE SEQVOR. See at xiii 41 nocuerunt ([p 406]).
23. SED NIHIL ADMISI. 'But I have committed no crime'—Wheeler. Compare EP III vi 13 'nec scelus admittas si consoleris amicum'. Admittere in this sense belonged to daily speech: TLL I 752 77 cites Plaut Trin 81, Ter HT 956 'quid ego tantum sceleris admisi miser', Lucilius 690 Marx, and Hor Ep I xvi 53.
25. EXCVTIAT. See at viii 17 excutias ([p 263]).
25. NOSTRI MONIMENTA LABORIS is rather grand, perhaps because Ovid intended the poem to come near the end of the collection. At Tr III iii 78 Ovid's libelli are called his most lasting monimenta, and at EP III v 35 Ovid flatteringly refers to Maximus Cotta's monimenta laboris.
26. LITTERA DE VOBIS EST MEA QVESTA NIHIL. This, of course, is manifestly untrue. See Tr V x entire, and compare for instance Tr V vii 45-46 'siue homines [sc specto], uix sunt homines hoc nomine digni, / quamque lupi saeuae plus feritatis habent'.