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 1   T-I|        my exile,~and reads your verses with wet eyes,~and silently
 2   T-I|       regarding time.~Fine-spun verses come from a tranquil mind:~
 3   T-I|       don’t hate those studies, verses~that hurt me, so that wit
 4   T-I|       love is a comfort. Yet my verses are a better~likeness, I
 5   T-I|     read them such as they are,~verses that speak about altered
 6   T-I|       and still unfinished.~The verses were not totally destroyed:
 7   T-I|        distance:~you know those verses were the fun of my youth:~
 8   T-I|         in icy December,~or the verses I wrote to the wild roaring
 9   T-I|         honest reader,~if these verses are less than you hoped
10 T-III|         often used to read your verses to me, while I could,~and
11 T-III|      books of transmuted forms,~verses snatched from their author’
12  T-IV|     there’s no one to recite my verses to,~none whose ears appreciate
13  T-IV|      its efforts,~has hurled my verses into the fire, to burn.~
14   T-V|        to a crowded theatre, my verses applauded, dear friend,~
15   T-V|  because he judged it so.~So my verses, rightly, sing your praises,
16   T-V|        on their proper feet,~no verses are composed, or only such
17  ExII|    place is open to your chaste verses!’~They still won’t go, but
18  ExII|       wedding torches,~and sang verses worthy of your blest marriage
19  ExII|         I’m struggling to weave verses, as you see:~though it’s
20  ExII|     gift to the dead,~and wrote verses to be sung in the midst
21  ExII|          in that you’re reading verses written while on watch.~
22   ExI|       my exile:~and, reading my verses sent from the Black Sea,~
23 ExIII|         will shine bright in my verses.~Here too the Sarmatians
24 ExIII|    first to dictate my youthful verses to me:~you guided me to
25 ExIII|   become weary of my monotonous verses,~and I ask what you’ve all
26  ExIV| produces a richer crop.~To send verses to such, would be adding
27  ExIV|         The Consul~ ~Go, slight verses, to the Consul’s learned
28  IBIS|        I’ll wage a war in these verses I’ve begun,~though it’s
29  IBIS|  weighty matters follow from my verses,~that you’ll experience
30   Ind|        is mentioned in the next verses.~ ~Neritus~Ulysses, so called
31   Ind|       VII:1-54 Compare the last verses of the Metamorphoses.~Book
32   Ind|         someone has adapted his verses for the stage. ~Book TV.
33   Ind|      poet, famed for elegy. His verses to Bittis his wife or sweetheart
34   Ind|    climate.~Book EII.V:1-40 His verses sent from there.~Book EIII.
35   Ind|       likely given the previous verses concerning Hercules, Thessalus