Keywords\n De victu, Pseudo-Hippocrates, Heraclitus, τρυπῶσι, πρίζουσι, technological analogy, H. Bartoš

Summary\n: In this paper I shall argue that the problematic manuscript reading in De victu I,7 and I,16, as has recently been suggested, can indeed be explained and thus saved from emendation. Although the strange phrase τρυπῶσι (ὁ μὲν ἕλκει, δὲ ὠθεῖ) should without a doubt be preserved as a lectio dificillior, the explanation proposed by H. Bartoš (that a large helical auger operated by two people is meant) is unsatisfactory, since the auger presupposes rotatory motion while the phrase for the enigmatic τρυπᾶν occurs in a context presupposing an upward-downward path with 2 cardinal points. Therefore we shall argue that a large two-men bow drill is to be meant.

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