Familiar Quotations / A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to / Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature

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Footnotes

[706:4] See Byron, page [555].

[706:5] See Washington, page [425].

[706:6] See Mason, page [393].

[706:7] See Burke, page [409].

[706:8] See Churchill, page [412].

[706:9] A mountain was in labour, sending forth dreadful groans, and there was in the region the highest expectation. After all, it brought forth a mouse.—Phædrus: Fables, iv. 22, 1.

The old proverb was now made good: "The mountain had brought forth a mouse."—Plutarch: Life of Agesilaus II.

[706:10] See Pope, page [323].

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