the battle of the frogs and the mice, the title of a fine burlesque poem generally ascribed to Homer.—The subject of the work is the death of Plycharpax, a mouse, son to Toxartes, who being mounted on the back of Phygnathus, a frog, on a voyage to her palace, to which he had invited him, was seized with fear when he saw himself in the middle of the pond, so that he tumbled off and was drowned. Phygnathus being suspected to have thrown him off with design, the mice demanded satisfaction, and unanimously declared war against the frogs.