Groaned for the micies

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  • mountain ... groaned ... micies: cf. Horace, Ars Poetica 139: parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus (“the mountains are in labour, a laughable little mouse is born”)
    • The Mountain in Labour: one of Aesop's Fables, which Phaedrus translated into Latin verse and which inspired the Horace quote
    • The Mountain in Labour
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