Fishermen
group · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
fishermen · FISHERMEN · Hunters of deep sea prey
in the texts
Cittaviśuddhiprakaraṇa
Fishermen, invoked as a group who work in water constantly yet would not thereby be considered spiritually purified.
If merit came from bathing, fishermen would have attained their goal;
Epigrams
Sea fishers who answer Homer's question about what they have caught.
Ay, for of such fathers you are sprung as neither hold rich lands nor tend countless sheep.
FISHERMEN:
Hunters of deep sea prey, have we caught anything?
Economics
Seafaring workers used as evidence that soil quality can be recognized by observation.
The fact is, I am reminded that fishermen, though their business is in the sea, and they neither stop the boat to take a look nor slow down, nevertheless, when they see the crops as they scud past the farms, do not hesitate to express an opinion about the land, which is the good and which is the bad sort, now condemning, now praising it.