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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 February 2009
Lvcilivs 11191 (Ma.) is preserved for us in Isid. Etym. XIX, iv, 10, where, amongst the articles of a ship's equipment, the plummet (catapirates, the 
) of Herodotus is mentioned, with this illustration (I give the reading of the Archetype) from Lucilius:
Hunc (hanc ?) catapiratem puer eodem deforet unctum,
plumbi paucillum rudus linique mataxam.
1 Thus in our MSS. of the Etymologiae deuoro appears as deforo in XI, iii, 33 (deforat); XII, 24 (deforant); VIII, xi, 31 (deforasse); VII, vi, 48 (deforans), etc.; and similarly prouincia as profinda in VIII, v, 27, etc., debere as deferre, the like.
2 Servius seems to say that the first foot in this Virgilian opening is a dactyl. At least that is the way I interpret his note on Aen. r, 575 (atque utinam rex ipse noto compulsus eodem): EODEM, o naturaliter longa est, sed si si corripiatur metri est, ut ‘ steteruntque comae.’
