6. SIDEREVSQVE PEDO. On Albinovanus Pedo, see at x 4 Albinouane ([p 327]).
For sidereus ('divine' or 'resplendent'), Bardon aptly cited Columella X 434 (written in hexameters) 'siderei uatis ... praecepta Maronis'.
7. ET, QVI IVNONEM LAESISSET IN HERCVLE, CARVS. This is the Carus to whom xiii is addressed: compare xiii 11-12 'prodent auctorem uires, quas Hercule dignas / nouimus atque illi quem canis ipse pares'.
As Jupiter's son by Alcmene, Hercules suffered from Juno's enmity until his deification.
8. IVNONIS SI IAM NON GENER ILLE FORET. Perhaps Carus' poem included Hercules' marriage to Hebe.
9. SEVERVS. On Severus, the addressee of poem ii, see the introduction to that poem; for quique dedit Latio carmen regale, see at ii 1 uates magnorum maxime regum ([p 162]).
10. SVBTILI ... NVMA. Numa is otherwise unknown. Subtilis means 'clean and elegant in style'; compare Cic De or I 180 'oratione maxime limatus atque subtilis' and Brutus 35 'tum fuit Lysias ... egregie subtilis scriptor atque elegans, quem iam prope audeas oratorem perfectum dicere'.
10. PRISCVS VTERQVE. Only one poet of this name is known, Clutorius (Tac Ann III 49-51) or C. Lutorius (Dio LVII 20 3) Priscus. All that is known of him is the manner of his death: in AD 21 he was put to death for composing and reciting a premature poem on the death of Drusus.
11. IMPARIBVS NVMERIS ... VEL AEQVIS. Like Ovid, Montanus wrote both elegiac and hexameter verse.
For impar used of elegiac verse, compare Hor AP 75 (the earliest instance) 'uersibus impariter iunctis', Am II xvii 21, Am III i 37, AA I 264, Tr II 220, EP II v 1 (disparibus), EP III iv 86 (disparibus), EP IV v 3 (nec ... aequis), and line 36 of the present poem.