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Mouse

Beings · Nature

Mouse as an animal people have named and used. Modesty, Compassion, Scrutiny — one living kind, not a single symbol.

  • Mouse is used in Medicine.

    Pliny’s Natural History treats mice among small animals entering Roman pharmacological and household-remedy speech. A named mouse in that encyclopedia, not rat as a separate shelf id and not a modern laboratory dump.

    from Pliny the Elder · Natural History, c. 77 CE

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  • Mouse is historically related to Wool.

    In Brewster's A Treatise on Optics, Mouse sits with Wool in textile speech — named together on the working page.

    from David Brewster · A Treatise on Optics, 1831 (and later PD editions)

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Egyptian religion

  • Mouse appears in Egyptian religion.

    Herodotus’s Sethos logos tells of field-mice that disable an Assyrian army overnight — a named mouse marvel in Egyptian royal speech. A named mouse in that traveler’s speech, not rat as an unfiled synonym and not a cartoon pest dump.

    from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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