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“The old proverb was now made good, "the mountain had brought forth a mouse."”
Provenance
- Source:
- Life of Agesilaus II.
- Type:
- quote
- Confidence:
- 0.85
- Indexed:
- 2026-07-04
- Hash:
- fbc59283f85a27cceec1e73742e6a0eb63b2219605b13ca318814655a73b16a2
public domain
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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