Note 5 — PREFACE TO THE TRANSLATION OF OVID'S EPISTLES.[2]
Reading edition
The poet himself plainly intimates as much in an epistle to Fabius Maximus, where he represents himself as accusing Love of being the cause of his exile:
O puer! exilii, decepto causa magistro.
The deity replies to this charge, by alluding to the secret cause of his banishment, for which the loosness of his verses furnished only an ostensible reason:
Juro
Nil nisi concessum nos te didicisse magistro, Artibus et nullum crimen inesse tuis, Utque hoc, sic utinam cetera defendere possis, Scis aliud quod te læserit esse magis.