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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