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Definition of Batrachomyomachia
1. Noun. A silly altercation.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Batrachomyomachia
Literary usage of Batrachomyomachia
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. History of the Literature of Ancient Greece: To the Period of Isocrates by Karl Otfried Müller, George Cornewall Lewis (1847)
"The batrachomyomachia, or Battle of the Frogs and the Mice (which has come down
to us among the lesser Homeric poems), is totally devoid of sarcastic ..."
2. Knight's Quarterly Magazine by Charles Knight (1824)
"batrachomyomachia, AND HYMN TO PAN. SOMEBODY blaming metrical translations, I
believe Cowper, says that translating in verse is like dancing in fetters; ..."
3. Introductions to the Study of the Greek Classic Poets: Designed Principally by Henry Nelson Coleridge (1842)
"... INTRODUCTION batrachomyomachia. THE Battle of the Frogs and the Mice Is a
short mock-heroic poem of ancient date. The text varies in different editions, ..."
4. Collectanea Anglo-poetica: Or, A Bibliographical and Descriptive Catalogue by Thomas Corser, James Crossley (1869)
"... in two volumes, 8vo, in 1843, and his translations of the Iliad, Odyssey and
batrachomyomachia were republished in 1857 and 1858 by Mr. Russell Smith, ..."
5. Catalogue of the Valuable Library of Henry B. Humphrey, Esq: To be Sold by by Henry B. Humphrey, Laurence Rhoades (1871)
"HOMER'S batrachomyomachia, Hymns and Epigrams ; Hesiod's Works and Days ; Musaeus'
Hero and Leander; Juvenal's Fifth Satire: translated by George Chapman. ..."
6. The Bibliographer's Manual of English Literature: Containing an Account of by William Thomas Lowndes (1834)
"The Hymns, the batrachomyomachia, and two original Poetical Hymns by George ...
batrachomyomachia, or the Battle of the Frogs and Mice by a ..."
7. Bibliotheca Grenvilliana by John Thomas Payne, Henry Foss, Thomas Grenville, William Brenchley Rye (1842)
"batrachomyomachia, hoc est Ranarum et Murium pugna. (Graece et Lat.). Apud Jo.
... Ejusdem batrachomyomachia sive Bellum Ranarum in Mures, ..."
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