-
creditors must all get the same
proportion of
their debt.
parturiunt montes,
nascetur ridiculus mus The
mountains are in labour, a
ridiculous mouse will be born...
-
creditors must all get the same
proportion of
their debt.
parturiunt montes,
nascetur ridiculus mus The
mountains are in labour, a
ridiculous mouse will be born...
- a new two-line
refrain (again in 88 meter): "Gaude, gaude!
Emmanuel /
nascetur pro te, Israel", i.e., "Rejoice, Rejoice!
Emmanuel will be born for you...
- bellum." quid
dignum tanto feret hic
promissor hiatu?
parturient montes,
nascetur ridiculus mus. And don’t
start like an old
writer of epic
cycles once did:...
- proverb. Cf. Jacobson,
Howard (2007). "Horace "AP" 139:
parturient montes,
nascetur ridiculus mus".
Museum Helveti****, Vol. 64, No. 1 (März 2007), pp. 59–61...
-
facta laboris. Solo sed
satis est
oracula prodere verbo: Ille Deus
casta nascetur virgine magnus. The son of a
virgin mother shall sit on a crook-backed...
-
since it
recurs in Horace's well
known hexameter line:
parturient montēs,
nāscētur rīdiculus mūs "the
mountains will be in labour, but all that will be born...
- Smith,
David F; Bufton, Mark W. (2004). "A Case of "Parturiunt Montes,
Nascetur Ridiculus Mus?" The BMA
Nutrition Committee 1947–1950 and the Political...
