76 Hippocratic Corpus and Diocles of Carystus

in Diocles’ argument can be compared with the polemical remarks we find

in such Hippocratic treatises asOn RegimenandOn Ancient Medicine

(section 3 ). Finally, some remarks will be made about what I believe the

fragment tells us (and what it does not tell us) about Diocles’ own practice

in dietetics and medical science as a whole (section 4 ).

2 interpretation of fragment 176

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[The translation printed here is the one printed in van der Eijk ( 2001 a) 283 – 5 .]