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When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it. — Pliny the Elder

Scientific literature

When a building is about to fall down, all the mice desert it.

In the original Latin

ruinis inminentibus musculi praemigrant.

Pliny the Elder
Naturalis Historia · 77
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Topic
InstinctsMiceAnimals
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Scientific literature
Time
77Classical antiquity
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Pliny the Elder
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Current citation
Pliny the Elder. Natural History: A Selection, translated by John F. Healy. Penguin Classics, 1991, bk. 8.
Original citation
Pliny the Elder. Historia Naturalis [Natural History]. 77 AD, bk. 8.

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