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Fescennine
Fescennine Fes"cen*nine, a. [L. Fescenninus, fr. Fescennia, a city of Etruria.] Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines. -- n. A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.

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- Fescennine Verses (Fescennina carmina), one of the earliest kinds of Italian poetry, subsequently developed into satire and Roman comic drama. Originally...
- tongue; such bliss, as also in Carmen 5, potentially attracts invidia. Fescennine Verses, the satiric and often lewd songs or chants performed on various...
- bridges may be seen, and several rich tombs have been excavated. The term Fescennine Verses refers to a certain kind of drinking song po****r at festivals...
- Probus. Among other things, he appears to have written (somewhat ribald) Fescennine Verses. Based on the information that Gellius provides, modern scholars...
- Pulls It Off! (1971), and later, Bazza Comes Into His Own: The Final Fescennine Farago of Barry McKenzie, Australia's First Working-class Hero—With Learned...
- Sun Books, 1978. ISBN 9780725103033 Bazza Comes into His Own: The Final Fescennine Farago of Barry McKenzie, Australia's first working-class hero—with learned...
- town of Atella; a form of ethnic humor that arose around 300 BC), and Fescennine verses (originating in southern Etruria). Furthermore, Phylakes scholars...
- marriage of Menelaus and Helen. In Latin, the epithalamium, imitated from Fescennine Gr**** models, was a base form of literature, when Catullus redeemed it...
- celebrate the event, the poet Claudian wrote an Epithalamion, as well as fescennine verses. According to him, the union had been arranged by Theodosius I...
- Against Rufinus 1 and 2. War Against Gildo. Against Eutropius 1 and 2. Fescennine Verses on the Marriage of Honorius. Epithalamium of Honorius and Maria...