18 ha optado por
tenuit ac tenet, quitando del texto credidit et credit, que aparecia en el n.
99-100: 'Abel a shepherd contained the type of Christ, who is the true and good shepherd' ('Abel pastor ovium, Christi
tenuit typum, qui est verus, et bonus pastor).
Carmina nempe tua dico meliora Maronis carminibus, celsi cantibus Ouidii, odis quas cecinit Flaccus, uerbosus Homerus Corduba quern genuit, Affrica quern
tenuit. Hi quia protulerant pomposis falsa Camenis rite tabescentes morsibus inuidiae.
ardentem
tenuit reverentia caedis / Letoiden, tristemque viro summissus honorem / largitur vitae' (1.
Tertium locum, dominicae orationis expositio merito
tenuit, quod oratio primum ac praecipuum fidei opus et exercitium sit.
(22) Ovid chose to refer to Horace as many-metred or numerosus (Tristia 4.10.41-42, et
tenuit nostras numerosus Horatius aures / dum ferit Ausonia carmina culta lyra ) giving him his due in terms of Horace's own claim to fame.
obviaque effulsit sub nubibus aut per inane aeris aut duro spirans erumpere saxo credita suspensum
tenuit formidine gressum.