8. GRANA. Ovid does not use pomegranates in his similar catalogues elsewhere. Professor R. J. Tarrant points out to me how Ovid elaborates the novel item of comparison in a full distich with several picturesque details (Punica, lento cortice, rubent), then reviews familiar elements rather more quickly in 9-10, with geography the ordering principle.
9. AFRICA QVOT SEGETES. Compare EP II vii 25 'Cinyphiae segetis citius numerabis aristas' (the Cinyps was a river in Libya).
9. SEGETES ... RACEMOS. Compare AA I 57 'Gargara quot segetes, quot habet Methymna racemos'.
9. TMOLIA TERRA = Lydia. The adjective Tmolius (from Tmolus, a mountain in Lydia famous for its wines) occurs only here.
10. QVOT SICYON BACAS. Compare AA II 518 'caerula quot bacas Palladis arbor habet'. For Sicyonian bacae compare Virgil G II 519 'Sicyonia baca' and Ibis 317 'oliuifera ... Sicyone'.
10. QVOT PARIT HYBLA FAVOS. Fauos stands by a type of metonymy for apes; compare AA II 517 'quot apes pascuntur in Hybla', AA III 150 'nec quot apes Hybla nec quot in Alpe ferae', and Tr V vi 38 'florida quam multas Hybla tuetur apes'. For a similar metonymy, see EP II vii 26 'altaque quam multis floreat Hybla thymis'.
11. CONFITEOR; TESTERE LICET. 'I make a public deposition; you, Pompeius, may be a witness'. The deposition is to the effect that Ovid is now Pompeius' property by virtue of the many gifts Pompeius has made to him.
11. TESTERE ... SIGNATE. André cites Dig XXII v 22 'curent magistratus cuiusque loci testari uolentibus et se ipsos et alios testes uel signatores praebere'.
11. SIGNATE, QVIRITES. After addressing Pompeius directly (testere licet), Ovid addresses those witnessing the mancipatio. As Professor A. Dalzell points out, this was achieved ex iure Quiritium; there is a similar direct address to the witnessing Quirites in the formula for establishing a will (Gaius II 104).
Professor Dalzell also notes the abrupt change of audience; typical of Propertius, this is a very unusual procedure in Ovid.