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The word " batrachomyomachia " has come to mean " a silly altercation ".
In this 600-page expansion of the pseudo-Homeric " Batrachomyomachia ", it is related at the court of the mice and takes up sections 5-8 of the first part.
Thestorides retreated hastily, and it was in Chios that Homer composed those of his supposed works that were meant for children, including the " Batrachomyomachia " or " Battle of the Frogs and Mice ".
Behind his beaviour is the situation at the start of the ancient mock epic " Batrachomyomachia " in which a frog carrying a mouse on its back had submerged from fear of a snake and inadvertently drowned his rider.
They included his " Song on Christ s Birth " ( " Carmen de natali Christi ", 1557 ); an adaptation into Latin of the Homeric comic epic, the Batrachomyomachia ( " Pugna ranarum et murium ", the battle of the frogs and mice ); an epic of the Dithmarschen Peasants War ( " Historia belli Ditmarsici ", 1560 ), which had only recently concluded and of which he also published a shorter version in German; and his collection of nearly 300 poems based on Aesop s Fables ( " Fabulae Aesopi carmine elegiaco redditae ", 1564 ).