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FISHERMEN ALWAYS OLD AND POOR 131Whatever be the reason, Greek fishermen, whether we readof them in the Epigrams or in the fragments of lost works, allcome down as old, patient, half-starved through dint of toilby day and night, sea-worn. Their horny hands grasp betterTHE HAPPY FISHERMAN. ATTRIBUTED TO THE ARTIST CHACHRYLION.From p. Hartwig's Die griechischen Meisierschalen, p. 57, pi. 5.a trident than hold the delicate pastoral reeds. They play notunes, they dance no dances, they sing no songs save somerowing chant, as they tug at the oars when homeward bound.bottom of drinking cups, etc. ! In P. Hartwig's {Die griechischen Meisierschalen{Stuttgart-Berlin, 1893), p. 37 ff.) collection of red-figured Greekvases representing fishermen at work, there is an Attic kylix (fifth cent. B.C.)with such a fisherman, who (the idea ran) was only in his element, when thecup was filled with wine. Cf. Theocritus, I. 39 ff., for another old fishermanin the bottom of a herdsman's cup.