Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Animals

    Fish

    animal · 8 works · 12 mentions · 12 anchored passages

    fish · fishes · the fishes · a fish · fish (needing salt) · fly-fishing · swimming creatures · the fish · the two fishes · water creatures

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    1 expression

    Fishes2 mentions

    Stromata (Greek) · Orations (Greek)

    I am silent now of the parable in the Gospel that says, "The kingdom of heaven is like to a man who cast a net into the sea, and out of the multitude of the fishes taken makes a choice of the better ones.
    book 6

    in the texts

    StromataLate Antiquity · Greek

    A fish used in an anecdote illustrating how animals warn their own kind of danger.

    And certain others say that if a fish drawn up escapes when the line has broken, no fish of the same kind will any longer be found in the same place that day.
    book 1
    but they say that fishes do not breathe this air, but that other one which was mingled with the water straightway at the first creation, as it was with the rest of the elements—which is also a token of their material permanence.
    book 7
    For many and various are the baits, by reason of the differences among the fish.
    book 7

    CittaviśuddhiprakaraṇaAncient · Sanskrit

    Fish, cited alongside fishermen as creatures constantly immersed in water yet not thereby purified.

    and what then to say of fish and the like, who dwell in the water night and day?
    treatise on the purification of the mind

    Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)Ancient · Sanskrit

    A fish addressed as guardian of the bodily passage in the healing charm.

    O wide fish of sweet waters, you guard its passage — free from discharge, free from disease.
    kanda 19

    OrationsImperial · Greek

    Animals cited by Diogenes as more prudent than men in matters of reproduction, needing no payment or courtship.

    And he said that the fishes appeared somewhat more prudent than men;
    oration 6

    Hymn 27 to ArtemisClassical · Greek

    Marine creatures mentioned in the shaking sea.

    earth quakes and the sea also where fishes shoal.
    hymn 27 to artemis

    SophistClassical · Greek

    Aquatic creatures whose hunting (fishing) is divided step by step to yield the paradigm example of angling.

    And the hunting of water creatures goes by the general name of fishing.
    sophist
    The kind that is characterized by the opposite sort of blow, which is practised with a hook and strikes, not any chance part of the body of the fishes, as tridents do, but only the head and mouth of the fish caught, and proceeds from below upwards, being pulled up by twigs and rods.
    sophist
    Str. And might I not divide this kind of hunting into two principal divisions?
    sophist

    StatesmanClassical · Greek

    Aquatic creatures kept in preserves, cited as the paradigm case for the 'aquatic-herding' branch of the diairesis.

    Yes, I have often seen the fish in fountain-pools and have heard many tales of those foreign preserves.
    1 ueber das wesen und den ursprung des geldes
    Whether, as I suppose, you have often heard people speak of this,— for I know you never actually saw the preserves of fish in the Nile and in the ponds of the Persian king.
    statesman

    Law in a Free State19th Century · English

    Fish deceived by the angler in fly-fishing, used as an example in the narrator's argument about expediency versus abstract duty.

    Because I do not ask the fishes to trust me in the future.
    chapter 3