Note (18) — BOOK IV.
James Greive translation
18. Cutiliæ, &c.) The waters of Cutiliæ in the country of the Sabines, Pliny says, are extremely cold, and by a kind of suction excite a sensation in the body like a bite; they are very useful to the stomach, nerves, and the whole body. Lib. xxxi. cap. 2. Our industrious critics and collectors have not been able hitherto to find any such place as Subruinæ or Sumbruinæ, and therefore to cut the knot they cannot loose, propose to read here, as well as in the forecited place of Pliny, Subcutiliæ.