... principle a contest of wits and skills betweenhunters and fishermen, between land animals and sea animals, but alsobetween fish and fishermen, and between land animals and hunters(965F–966B, 975D, ... dishonourable, and stupid, and only slaves, women, and littlechildren” (3 .49 .1–3) or, as Celsus also said: “wool-workers, cobblers, laundry-workers, and the most illiterate and bucolic yokels” ... man and his personality and characteristics. Animals were used todescribe humans and, not least, to be a contrast to them so that humans were set apart as something special and close to the gods. What...