=96. FEMINA ... VIRVE PVERVE= = 'anyone'; compare _Tr_ III vii 29-30 'pone, Perilla, metum: tantummodo _femina nulla / neue uir_ a scriptis discat amare tuis', and Ovid's use of _femina uirque_ 'everyone' at _Met_ VI 314-15 '_femina uirque_ timent cultuque impensius _omnes_ ... uenerantur numina', _RA_ 814, _Tr_ I iii 23, and _Tr_ II 6. The repeated _u_ in _uirue_ would not have offended the Romans: compare for instance _Tr_ III vii 30 'neue uir', _Am_ I viii 97 'uiri uideat toto uestigia lecto', and _Met_ XII 204 'poteratque uiri uox illa uideri'; conscious alliteration at _Am_ III vii 59 'uiuosque uirosque' and _Met_ XIII 386 'inuictumque uirum uicit'.
=98. HAEC QVONIAM TELLVS TESTIFICANDA MIHI EST.= Similar phrasing at _Ibis_ 27-28 (of Augustus) 'faciet quoque forsitan idem / _terra_ sit ut propior _testificanda mihi_'.
=100. RESPECTV ... SVI.= 'Out of consideration for themselves'. _Respectus_ elsewhere in Ovid only at _Tr_ I iii 99-100 (of his wife after his departure) '[narratur ...] uoluisse mali [_Madvig_: mori _codd_] moriendo ponere sensus, / _respectu_ tamen non periisse _mei_'. _Respectus_ is found in Phaedrus, Martial, and Juvenal, but not in Virgil, Horace, or Propertius.
=101. NEC MIHI CREDIDERIS= in its absolute use here seems colloquial: elsewhere Ovid uses _nec ... credideris_ to introduce a dependent clause (_Tr_ V xiv 43; _EP_ I viii 29).
=101. EXTANT DECRETA QVIBVS NOS / LAVDAT ET IMMVNES PVBLICA CERA FACIT.= The same honour described in greater detail at xiv 51-56.
=101. EXTANT= ('there exist') is somewhat more forceful than the nearly equivalent _sunt_: compare xiv 44 '_extat_ adhuc nemo saucius ore meo', Cic _Planc_ 2 'uideo ... hoc in numero neminem ... cuius non _extet_ in me summum meritum', and Cic _Diu_ I 71.
=102. PVBLICA CERA= = _tabulae publicae_, 'public records', for which compare Cic _Arch_ 8 & _Fl_ 40, and Livy XXVI 36 11. The same metonymy at Val Max II x 1, where _tabulae_ and _cera_ are used as synonyms, and at Hor _Ep_ I vi 62 'Caerite cera', where commentators cite Aulus Gellius' mention of _tabulae Caerites_ (XVI 13).
=103. QVAE= _R. J. Tarrant_ HAEC _L, probante Heinsio_ ET _BCMFHIT_. _Quae_ connects with _idem_ in the following line and provides a more satisfactory sense than _et_, which would make the sentence mean that Ovid did not consider the decrees something to boast of. _Quae quamquam_ is preferable to _haec quamquam_ since it connects better with the preceding line and is obviously more prone to corruption; but for a similar corruption of _haec_ compare Prop II xxiii 1 'fuit indocti haec [_uar_ et] semita uulgi'. For _quae_ Professor Tarrant cites _EP_ III v 9-10 '_quae quamquam_ lingua mihi sunt properante per horas / lecta satis multas, pauca fuisse queror' and _EP_ III viii 23-24 '_quae quamquam_ misisse pudet ... tu tamen haec quaeso consule missa boni'.