Fescennine

[fesәnain]

Definition

(a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines.

(n.) A style of low, scurrilous, obscene poetry originating in fescennia.

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Definition

adj. scurrilous.—Fescennine verses consisted of dialogues in rude extempore verses generally in Saturnian measure in which the parties rallied and ridiculed one another. The style afterwards popular at Rome originated in the Etruscan town Fescennium.

Editor: Mervin