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Cogito, mus pusillus quam sit sapiens bestia, aetatem qui uni cubili nunquam committit suam:;: quia si unum ostium obsideatur, aliud perfugium gerit.
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Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
horace— 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.
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.
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.
