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... neci, mirabere, vixque probabo, sed tamen ille ego sum....

'sed (..) quondam': the vs is beautifully written - take a look at the iuxtaposition : ille - ego - sum - me - Pasiphaeia = Hippolytus - Virbius (:ego) - sum - me - (against his opponent 'P'. If you look at vss like these, you see, as it were, Ovid thinking about, how to compose his vss. an to achieve effects.