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A Line of Lvcilivs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

W. M. Lindsay
W. M. Lindsay
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St. Andrews
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Extract

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.

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , April 1911 , pp. 97
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1911

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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.’