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
- 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.
- 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 PriceThomas Parnell
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