Note (29) — BOOK VII. (continued 2)

29. Then in that part where the bottom of the wound is straiter, &c. Deinde ea parte qua strictior ima plaga est.) Thus all the printed copies read. This passage has given rise to a variety of opinions on the nature of the first and second wound: some imagining that the first, which is called the lunated incision, was concave towards the rectum; others, on the contrary, from the word coxæ being used for the ilia as well as the ischia, believed it was concave towards the scrotum.