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BATTLE OF THE FROGS AND MICE.

NAMES OF THE

DRAMATIS PERSONÆ EXPLAINED.

mice.

Psicharphax, crumb-filcher.
Troxartes, bread-muncher.
Lichomyle, lick-meal.
Pternotroctas, chaw-bacon.
Lichopinax, lick-dish.
Embasichytros, pot-stalker.
Lichenor, lick-man.
Troglodytes, one who runs into
⁠holes.
Artophagus, bread-eater.
Tyroglyphus, cheese-scooper.
Pternophagus, bacon-eater.
Cnissodioctes, one who follows the
⁠steam of the kitchen.
Sitophagus, wheat-eater.
Meridaprax, one who plunders his
⁠share.

frogs.

Physignathus, puff-cheeks.
Peleus, the muddy.
Hydromeduse, water-queen.
Hypsiboas, loud-bawler.
Pelion, the muddy.
Teutlæus, beet-man.
Polyphonus, great-talker.
Limnocharis, lake-rejoicing.
Crambophagus, cabbage eater.
Limnisius, of the lake.
Calaminthius, of the reed.
Hydrocharis, water-rejoicing.
Borborocoetes, lying in the mud.
Phassophagus, garlic-eater.
Pelusius, the muddy.
Pelobates, mud-walking.
Prassæus, garlic.
Craugasides, croaking.

On commencing,[1] I first implore the quire of the muses to descend from Helicon into mine heart, for the sake of the song which I now commit to tablets [placed] upon my knees,[2] a

  1. ↑ Chapman renders this, "entering the fields," where there seems to be a typographical error for "field." Άρχόμενος is generally joined with some other word, as in Apoll. Rhod. i. 1, ἀρχ. σέο Φοῑβε. So ἐκ Διὸς ἀρχώμεσθα, Aratus, Phæn. i. The old paraphrase runs thus, ἀρχὴν ποιούμενος καταρχἀς ἐκ τοῡ ὂρους τοῡ Έλικῶνος ἐλεύσεσθαι εις τὴν ἐμὴν ψυχὴν εὐχὴν ποιοῦμαι τῆς τοιήσεως ἢντινα ἀοιδὴν βιβλιος ἒθηκα
  2. ↑ Join ἐμὸις γόυνασι, and compare Hippocrat. Ep. ad Damag. p. 12 ὂ Δημόκριτος εἰχεν ἐτὶ τοὶν γουνάτοιν βιβλιον ὂ ἒγροφεν ἐγκεἰμενος. Maittaire.
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