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290 COSA. [chap, xivii.
cause of such desolation, with needless apologies for its
absurdity. The mountain laboured and brought forth,
not one " ridiculous mouse," but so many as to drive the
citizens from their fire-sides—
Ridiculam cladis pudet inter seria causam
Promere, sed risum dissimulare piget.
Dicnntur cives quondam migrare coacti
Muribus infestos deseruisse lares.
Credere maluerim pygmese damna cohortis,
Et conjuratas in sua bella grues.
not ascribe these coins to Cosa, shows Compsa in Samnium ; and so also Mil-
that they cannot in any case belong to lingen (Numis. Anc. Italie, p. 170) ; but
the times of the Etruscans, because that Sestini (Geog. Numis. II. p. 4) to Cossea,
people had no O in their language. a city of Thrace.
Cramer (I. p. 195) refers them to
cause of such desolation, with needless apologies for its
absurdity. The mountain laboured and brought forth,
not one " ridiculous mouse," but so many as to drive the
citizens from their fire-sides—
Ridiculam cladis pudet inter seria causam
Promere, sed risum dissimulare piget.
Dicnntur cives quondam migrare coacti
Muribus infestos deseruisse lares.
Credere maluerim pygmese damna cohortis,
Et conjuratas in sua bella grues.
not ascribe these coins to Cosa, shows Compsa in Samnium ; and so also Mil-
that they cannot in any case belong to lingen (Numis. Anc. Italie, p. 170) ; but
the times of the Etruscans, because that Sestini (Geog. Numis. II. p. 4) to Cossea,
people had no O in their language. a city of Thrace.
Cramer (I. p. 195) refers them to