Depictions of a battle with mice and cats adorn ancient Egyptian papyruses from as far back as the 14th century B.C. Loc 43
This ancient story of the frog and the mouse was widely known in the East. (The 13th-century Persian poet Rumi has a charming version of it.) Loc 85
the widely-translated anonymous 9th-century Irish poem “Pangur Ban,” about a scholar and his cat—as the cat pursues the library’s mice, so the scholar pursues difficult questions.Loc 158