Note (88) — BOOK V. (continued 2)

88. If it does not slip out, &c.) Almeloveen and Linden read, si non dilabitur sede, qua innititur; whereas the prior editions wrote, si non labitur, sede quale innititur; i. e. ‘if it does not slide, but rests upon a smooth surface.’ This Morgagni[ JL ] likes much better, as agreeable to Celsus himself, who adds, si inæquale quoque et asperum, &c, that is, in the first case where the probe rested, but upon a plain surface, the caries was but little advanced; whereas under the following appearances it was more considerable.