Note (2) — BOOK IV.

2. Below the last ribs, &c.) I have here translated, according to an emendation proposed by Morgagni[ JC ], who would read, Qui lumbis sub imis costis inhærent, a parte earum rotundi, ab altera resimi. Where a small alteration renders the description just: whereas in the way it stands in all the editions, Qui lumbis sub imis coxis inhærent, a parte earum resimi, ab altera rotundi, it plainly contradicts truth, as will be very obvious to any person the least conversant in anatomy.