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Quotation from The Art of Poetry (Ars Poetica) by Horace
“The mountain labours, and a mouse is born.”
The Art of Poetry (Ars Poetica), lines 136-139 (Latin numbering), trans. John Conington (1870)
Mockery of the poet who opens with a grandiose promise and delivers little.
Citation: "The mountain labours, and a mouse is born." — Horace, The Art of Poetry (Ars Poetica), lines 136-139 (Latin numbering), trans. John Conington (1870). (id horace-ars-poetica-q1)
