Mouse
animal · 5 works · 5 mentions · 6 anchored passages
mouse · a mouse · the mouse
spoken of as
1 expressionA mouse1 mention
Characters (Greek)
in the texts
Wasps
An animal used as a simile for Philocleon's furtive escape attempts.
My father's gone into the kitchen and is rooting about in there like a mouse.
BDELYCLEON Maybe a mouse threw it at you from above somewhere.
Rhetoric
Animal used to illustrate the fallacy of homonymy through the pun between 'mouse' (mys) and 'mysteries' (mysteria).
For instance, if one were to say that the mouse is an important animal, since from it is derived the most honored of all religious festivals, namely, the mysteries;
Vitae philosophorum
A mouse Diogenes watched, whose indifference to comfort and darkness taught him to adapt to circumstance.
Through watching a mouse running about, says Theophrastus in the Megarian dialogue, not looking for a place to lie down in, not afraid of the dark, not seeking any of the things which are considered to be dainties, he discovered the means of adapting himself to circumstances.
Quomodo quis suos in virtute sentiat profectus
A small creature appearing in two separate anecdotes, first prompting Diogenes to renew his philosophical resolve, then prompting Brasidas's reflection on the courage of even the weakest creatures.
While he was thinking thus with himself, he espied (as the story goes) a mouse venturing toward him, and now and then nibbling at a mouldy crust that he had in his pouch.
Brasidas, the Lacedaemonian captain, by chance caught a mouse among some dry figs;
Characters
A household pest whose gnawing through a grain-bag is treated by the superstitious man as an omen demanding ritual response.