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Oh may the nine from Helicon inspire

DMI number:
17832
First Line:
Oh may the nine from Helicon inspire
Last Line:
And the war ended as his rays withdrew
Poem Genre / Form:
Mock epic, Imitation / translation / paraphrase, and Couplet
Themes:
Animals[Mice; Frogs] and Fighting / conflict
Related People
Translated from:
Homer
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Dedicatee:
Lord John Hinton
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Author:
Thomas Parnell
Confidence:
Absolute (100%)
Comments:
Contains an extract from Homer's Battle of the Frogs and the Mice (Book 3). Rawson and Lock (1989): 85-96.
Content/Publication
Title:
Poems on several subjects, by a land-waiter in the Port of Poole. [T42655]
Page No(s):
pp.[87]-108
Poem Title:
Batrachomuomachia: Or, The Battle Of The Frogs and Mice.
Attribution:
Dedication signed 'H. Price'. 'The lines mark'd with the comma's, are the late Mr. Archdeacon Parnell's', p.108 [footnote].
Attributed To:
Henry Price
Thomas Parnell