FISHERMEN ALWAYS OLD AND POOR _ 131 
Whatever be the reason, Greek fishermen, whether we read 
of them in the Epigrams or in the fragments of lost works, all 
come down as old, patient, half-starved through dint of toil 
by day and night, sea-worn. Their horny hands grasp better 
THE HAPPY FISHERMAN, ATTRIBUTED TO THE ARTIST CHACHRYLION. 
From P. Hartwig’s Die griechischen Meisterschalen, p. 57, pl. 5. 
a trident than hold the delicate pastoral reeds. They play no 
tunes, they dance no dances, they sing no songs save some 
rowing chant, as they tug at the oars when homeward bound. 
bottom of drinking cups, etc.! In P. Hartwig’s (Die griechischen Meistey- 
schalen (Stuttgart—Berlin, 1893), p. 37 ff.) collection of red-figured Greek 
vases representing fishermen at work, there is an Attic Aylix (fifth cent. B.c.) 
with such a fisherman, who (the idea ran) was only in his element, when the 
cup was filled with wine. Cf. Theocritus, I. 39 ff., for another old fisherman 
in the bottom of a herdsman’s cup. 
