Note (9) — BOOK I.

9. Indeed may be opened.) The text in Almeloveen and Linden runs thus, Nam ne uterum quidem ut nihilominus aerem contineat, &c. The particle ne is not in the older copies or the MS. of Morgagni[ IE ], and as it spoils the sense, I have omitted it. The same older copies read qui minus ad rem pertineat, instead of ut nihilominus aerem contineat; but as the first can bear no sense at all in this place, and the other has not the elegance of Celsus, I have taken no notice of either; and as the connection is perfect without any addition, I suspect both to have crept in from the margin.