or "battle of the frogs and the mice," the title of a mock heroic poem generally ascribed to Homer, though without any good foundation. The subject of the work is the death of Psycharpax a mouse, son of Texartes, who having mounted on the back of Physignathus a frog, was being conveyed to her palace to which she had invited him; but being seized with fear at seeing himself in the middle of the pond, he tumbled off and was drowned. Physignathus being suspected of having intentionally shaken off Psycharpax, the mice demanded satisfaction, and unanimously declared war against the frogs.