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 1   T-I|        nearing.~It’s good that I didnt allow her to ship with
 2   T-I|         greater favour, since he didnt publish them, ~but they
 3   T-I|       our continuing love?~What, didnt you share so many of my
 4   T-I|         and trivial moments, and didnt I share yours?~What, didn’
 5   T-I|      didn’t I share yours?~What, didnt you not only know me in
 6   T-I|         I marvel myself my skill didnt fail me~in such a turmoil
 7  T-II|          gift, added, ~since you didnt subtract it, my family
 8  T-II|        it, my family wealth.~You didnt condemn my action by Senate
 9  T-II|        for my wit and taste.~Why didnt I attack Troy again in
10  T-II|        seven gates?~Warring Rome didnt deny me matter,~it’s virtuous
11  T-II|    acceptable, and so was he.~It didnt harm you, Callimachus,
12  T-II|      love of her brother.~Again, didnt ivory-shouldered Pelops,
13  T-II|   exceedingly shameful words:~it didnt harm one author to show
14  T-II|         can cheat her spouse.~It didnt do him harm, Tibullus
15 T-III|           not for my books:~they didnt deserve their author’s
16   T-V|       took part, among them, and didnt displease you,~I who am
17   T-V|   trouble, a fate your character didnt deserve,~and all too justified
18   T-V|           I wouldnt obey if you didnt count on my remembering.~
19   T-V|  deserved exile~from the city, I didnt perhaps deserve to exist
20   T-V|     harbour, it still floats.~He didnt take my life, my wealth,
21  ExII|         himself granted life.~He didnt choose to destroy me as
22  ExII|       Even then he did nothing I didnt compel him to do:~his
23  ExII|     Smyrna.~Diogenes, the Cynic, didnt grieve, far from Sinope,~
24  ExII|         than mine,~if great fame didnt merely hide the truth.~
25  ExII|         than before.~Your father didnt repudiate my friendship,~
26  ExII|         Atreus, or the Twins:~he didnt disdain me as a friend
27   ExI|          mid-ocean:~while others didnt even wish to be seen to
28   ExI|          who’d do this even if I didnt ~ask it, add to it their
29   ExI|     Jupiter’s temple?~If the sea didnt offer calm waters for
30   ExI|        protect me in my exile.~I didnt come to Pontus, guilty
31 ExIII|           not hatred of me.~They didnt lack loyalty or the wish
32 ExIII| unhindered by Jupiter.~Leucothea didnt refuse her aid to Ulysses,
33  ExIV|         of Croesus’s wealth?~Yet didnt he, a captive, have his
34  ExIV|        to your heartfelt care he didnt warm~some Bistonian sword-blade
35  ExIV|          dangerous seas:~yet, he didnt endure the anxiety of
36  ExIV|        white-haired age.~If that didnt move you, I’d think you’
37   Ind|         Ovid. Those who think he didnt do enough for the poet
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