File:Cincinnati Convention Mountain of Horace.png

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English: Political cartoon showing 1872 Liberal Republicans gathered around a mountain witnessing the birth of its candidate, a mouse labeled "H. G." (Horace Greeley, the candidate for president) with a tail labeled "Gratz Brown" (the vice-presidential candidate). The scene is apparently based on a quote from Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus).
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Source Harper's Weekly, May 18, 1872, p. 392
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Thomas Nast  (1840–1902)  wikidata:Q214957 s:en:Author:Thomas Nast
 
Thomas Nast
Alternative names
Thos. Nast; Nast; Th Nast; Th. Nast
Description American-German cartoonist and caricaturist
Date of birth/death 27 September 1840 Edit this at Wikidata 7 December 1902 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth/death Landau, Germany Guayaquil, Ecuador
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“GREAT EXPECTATIONS.”

“A (Mud) Mountain was once greatly agitated. Loud Groans and Noises were heard; and crowds of People came from all Parts to see what was the Matter. After long expectation and many wise conjectures from the by-standers, out popped a — Mouse!”

Corresponding quote from Horace (Ars Poetica, c. 18 B.C., line 139):

Latina: Parturient montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.
English: The mountains will be in labor, and a ridiculous mouse will be brought forth.

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