Meditations XI.22

Do not forget the story of the town mouse and the country mouse, and the excitement and trepidation of the latter.⁷³

• 73.Aesop, Fables 297; Horace’s Satires ii. 6 ff.

  The fable of the town mouse and the country mouse is told by Aesop and, at the close of the sixth satire of his second book, by Horace.