The poem is remarkable for the cluster of legal terms at 11-12. The passage is evidence for Ovid's expertise and interest in law. For other indications of this in his works, see at 12 ([p 434]).
1. SI QVIS ... EXTAT. Pompeius is kept in the third person through line 10; Ovid thereby indicates that he is making a public declaration.
1. EXTAT. As Riese pointed out, the choice in 1-2 is between extat ... requirit and extet ... requirat; the problem is that the manuscripts give extat ... requirat, requirit being found only in a few manuscripts of Heinsius, while extet is a conjecture of Guethling. Owen (1894) thought that the ending of extat caused requirit to be corrupted to requirat; on the other hand, the alteration of extet to extat would be all but automatic. There is a similar difficulty at Tr I i 17-18 'si quis ut in populo nostri non immemor illi [=illic], / si quis qui quid agam forte requirat erit', where most manuscripts have requiret. Both passages seem to involve the assimilation of requirere to the mood of the verb immediately following. I print extat ... requirit in consideration of Tr III x 1-2 'Si quis adhuc istic meminit Nasonis adempti, / et superest sine me nomen in urbe meum' (cited by Lenz), Tr III v 23-24 'si tamen interea quid in his ego perditus oris— / quod te credibile est quaerere—quaeris, agam' and Tr V vii 5 'scilicet ut semper quid agam, carissime, quaeris'.
3. CAESARIBVS = Augusto et Tiberio. Augustus is similarly given primary credit for Ovid's survival at v 31-32 'uiuit adhuc uitamque tibi debere fatetur, / quam prius a miti Caesare [=Augusto] munus habet'.
4. A SVPERIS ... PRIMVS. The same idiomatic use of ab 'after' at v 25-26 'tempus ab his uacuum Caesar Germanicus omne / auferet; a magnis hunc colit ille deis' and Fast III 93-94 (of the month of March) 'quintum Laurentes, bis quintum Aequiculus acer, / a tribus hunc primum turba Curensis habet'.
5. TEMPORA ... OMNIA. Compare i 23 'numquam pigra fuit nostris tua gratia rebus'.
5. COMPLECTAR. Complecti in the weak sense 'include, take in' is found in Ovid only here and at Tr I v 55 'non tamen idcirco complecterer omnia uerbis'. The usage is common in prose (OLD complector 8).
6. MERITIS. Compare i 21-22 'et leuis haec meritis referatur gratia tantis; / si minus, inuito te quoque gratus ero'.
7-10. QVAE NVMERO TOT SVNT. Ovid is very fond of using this type of catalogue to indicate great number. Compare AA I 57-59 ('tot habet tua Roma puellas'), AA II 517-19 ('tot sunt in amore dolores'), AA III 149-50 (the many ways women can ornament themselves), Tr V vi 37-40 (the number of Ovid's ills), and EP II vii 25-28 ('nostrorum ... summa laborum').
8. LENTO CORTICE. 'Tough skin'.