The variant AGER (_TM2I2_) for _amor_ was clearly induced by such passages as Tib II vi 21-22 'spes sulcis credit aratis / semina quae magno _faenore_ reddat _ager_', _RA_ 173-74 'obrue uersata Cerealia semina terra, / quae tibi cum multo _faenore_ reddat _ager_', and _EP_ I v 25-26 'at, puto ... sata cum multo _faenore_ reddit _ager_': these passages refer to the original meaning of _faenus_ ('faenum appellatur naturalis terrae fetus; ob quam causam et nummorum fetus _faenus_ est uocatum'--Festus 94 Muller, 83 Lindsay).
=18. REDDET= _GCMIT_ REDDIT _BFHL_. Numerous instances of similar corruptions in Lucan and Juvenal given by Willis (166-67), who remarks 'The general trend seems to be from other tenses to the present, and from other persons and numbers to the third person singular'.
=19. QVACVMQVE NOTA.= 'With whatever method of indicating your name is possible'. For the collocation of _nota_ and _nomen_, see _Aen_ III 443-44 'insanam uatem aspicies, quae rupe sub ima / fata canit foliisque _notas et nomina_ mandat'.
Luck joins the phrase with the following _tibi carmina mittam_, but the construction seems somewhat cumbersome; it is probably better to retain the comma after _nota_ and take the phrase with _teque canam_.
=20-22. PVERO ... PVER ... FRATRI FRATER.= For Ovid's use of polyptoton, see at viii 67 _uatis ... uates_ (p 278).
=23. DVXQVE COMESQVE.= The same phrase at _Tr_ III vii 18 (to his stepdaughter Perilla) 'utque pater natae _duxque comesque_ fui' and _Tr_ IV x 119-20 (to his Muse) 'tu _dux et comes_ es, tu nos abducis ab Histro, / in medioque mihi das Helicone locum'.
=24. FRENA NOVELLA.= For the image, see at ii 23 _frena remisi_ (p 169). _Nouellus_ is a rare word in poetry. In prose, the word is often used of young plants or farm animals; and here _frena nouella_ may well be a metonymy for _frena nouellorum equorum_. Alternatively, the word could be equivalent to _noua_ 'new, unfamiliar', as at _Fast_ III 455 'iamque indignanti _noua frena_ receperat ore'. In either case, Ovid is clearly referring to the beginning of his poetic career.
=25. SAEPE EGO CORREXI SVB TE CENSORE LIBELLOS.= Compare _Tr_ III vii 23-24 (to Perilla) 'dum licuit, tua saepe mihi, tibi nostra legebam; / saepe tui _iudex_, saepe magister eram'. _Censore_ was probably still felt as a metaphor; the only precedent given at _OLD censor_ 2b is Hor _Ep_ II ii 109-10 'at qui legitimum cupiet fecisse poema / cum tabulis _animum censoris_ sumet _honesti_', which is virtually a simile.