Note (37) — BOOK III. (continued 2)

37. And especially brains.) I have taken no notice of the words ex prima in the reading of Linden and Almeloveen, which manifestly spoil the sense, otherwise complete without them. [ JB ]Morgagni observes, that all the other editions read, either ex pruna, or ex aprugna; but this last is not probable, because he said, that a boar was of the strongest class of food, lib. ii. but the whole head of a lamb or kid in the middle kind; and the former seems to be superfluous.