Abstract
We examine the contact three-nucleon force at N4LO expressed as a density dependent potential. In Ref. [1], the necessary couplings (13, including two that appear in the leading three-nucleon force), were extracted from nd scattering observables. The contact strengths obtained through the three- nucleon continuum, without fi?ts to the triton, seem incompatible with the energy of nuclear and neutron matter. We take the opportunity to revisit the role of the cD, cE couplings of the leading three-nucleon force in nuclear matter and nuclei.