Question: What's the Latin for Rats Deserting a Sinking Ship?
Answer: Pliny the Elder, in his Natural History, wrote about mice deserting a building when it was in imminent danger of collapse:
Ruinis inminentibus musculi praemigrant.
When ruin is imminent, the little rodents move away beforehand.
Book VIII.103 PROGNOSTICS OF DANGER DERIVED FROM ANIMALS
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