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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A battle between the frogs and mice; specifically (cap.), the title of an ancient Greek parody on the Iliad.

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  1. n. A petty quarrel.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. The battle between the frogs and mice; -- a Greek parody on the Iliad, of uncertain authorship.

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  1. From Batrachomyomachia (Ancient Greek βάτραχος, frog, μῦς, mouse, and μάχη, battle), a comic epic parodying the Iliad in which a diving frog accidentally drowns a mouse riding on his back, prompting a war between the species. (Wiktionary)

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