Bathos[Greek, bathos, depth]. A ludicrous descent from grandiloquence to commonplace. A literary mermaid. Humano capiti cervicem pictor equinam Jungere si velit ... ut turpiter atrum Desinat in piscem mulier formosa superne. “Parturiunt montes, nascetur ridiculus mus.” Horace: De Arte Poetica, line 139. A good example is the well-known couplet: And thou, Dalhousie, the great god of war, Lieutenant-general to the earl of Mar. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Bathos from Infoplease:
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