Seeing the function of <púpún˜is\ nír> as ambiguous, being either an appositive to<apaes> or the subject of <veiat>, Watkins does not commit to a colometry but proposesone for each interpretation. If 'Picene man/man of Picenum' belongs to the first line, thepoem would consist of a hendecasyllable + octosyllable; if the phrase were construedwith the second line, the epitaph would have hepta- + dodecasyllable. While the phrase'sambiguous role cannot be denied, assignment of it to the second line results in clearersyntactic parallelism with the first line.