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Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.

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— The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.
Horace is hereby poking fun at heroic labours producing meager results; his line is also an allusion to one of Æsop's fables, The Mountain in Labour. The title to Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing expresses a similar sentiment.
Line 139.

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Quid dignum tanto feret hic promissor hiatu? Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus.


— What will this boaster produce worthy of this mouthing? The mountains are in labor; a ridiculous mouse will be born.
— Horace, Ars Poetica (18 BC), 138. Athenæus, Deipnosophists, 14. 7. (A preserved fragment). Phædrus, IV. 22.

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Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.


— The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.
— Horace is hereby poking fun at heroic labours producing meager results; his line is also an allusion to one of Æsop's fables, The Mountain in Labour. The title to Shakespeare's play Much Ado About Nothing expresses a similar sentiment.
— Line 139.

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Parturiunt montes; nascetur ridiculus mus. The mountains are in labour, and there will be born an absurd little mouse.


— Ars Poetica, l.139.

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