adynata

• ET POSSIT FATVM MOLLIVS ESSE MEVM.= The personal reference in the last element of the series of adynata is a clear break with the conventions of the topic. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
• I. 91, quoted by Blomfield: [Greek: tên peprômenên moirên adynata esti apophygeein kai tô theô]. —  Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
• (using several _adynata_ as illustrations) that this gratitude will be eternal (27-46). —  The Last Poems of Ovid
• = Ovid uses the common device of listing _adynata_; the second version of the device at _Tr_ I viii 1-10, where Ovid says that now his friend has betrayed him he expects to see the _adynata_ occur. —  The Last Poems of Ovid
• Comprehensive listings of _adynata_ in ancient literature given by Smith on Tib I iv 65-66, Shackleton Bailey on Prop I xv 29, Nisbet and Hubbard on Hor _Carm_ I ii 9, xxix 10 & xxxiii 7, and by Gow on Theocritus I —  The Last Poems of Ovid

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