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grbs-16540	Fries, Almut	The Mountain in Labour: A Possible Graeco-Anatolian Myth	2021	23	.pdf	application/pdf	8381	353	68	But otherwise we would still have to assume that the inventor of the fable and/or the proverb of the mountain and the mouse was familiar with a narrative like that of Wāšitta because the motif of the ‘mountain in labour’ is alien to Greek myth (cf. 437 above). Of mice and mountains in Greek Lucian in his satirical essay Πῶς δεῖ ἱστορίαν συγγράφειν (How to Write History) uses the proverb in a context that is similar to Horace’s (23): καὶ µὴν καὶ ἄλλους ἴδοις ἂν τὰ µὲν προοίµια λαµπρὰ καὶ τραγικὰ καὶ εἰς ὑπερβολὴν µακρὰ συγγράφοντας, ὡς ἐλπίσαι θαυµαστὰ ἡλίκα τὰ µετὰ ταῦτα πάντως ἀκούσεσθαι, τὸ σῶµα δὲ αὐτὸ τὸ τῆς ἱστορίας µικρόν τι καὶ ἀγεννὲς ἐπαγαγόντας … εὐθὺς γοῦν οἱ ἀκούσαντες ἐπιφθέγγονται αὐτοῖς τὸ	cache/grbs-16540.pdf	txt/grbs-16540.txt