Fescennine

And hence a different species of poetry, known to us chiefly in connexion with the harvest-home and with marriage ceremonial—the so-called Fescennine poetry.

Introduction 1912

I wish, however, they had excepted from their unqualified panegyrics the coarse imitation of the Fescennine poems, which leaves in our minds a stronger impression of the prevalence and extent of Roman vices, than any other passage in the

Satyricon 2007

While you lived, taste kept the French drama pure; and it was the congenial business of English playwrights to foist their rustic grossness and their large Fescennine jests into the urban page of

Letters to Dead Authors 2006

At this hour the seat was as in a theatre, but the words of the actors were of a nature somewhat too Fescennine for a respectable public.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

“Punch,” and his pleasantries may remind the traveller of what he has read concerning the Mines and Fescennine performances of the Romans.

Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

I wish, however, they had excepted from their unqualified panegyrics the coarse imitation of the Fescennine poems, which leaves in our minds a stronger impression of the prevalence and extent of Roman vices, than any other passage in the Latin classics.

The Satyricon — Complete 20-66 Petronius Arbiter

These are of the Fescennine ranks and of Aequi Falisci, these of

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil

Fescennine verses; a tragedy, 'Ajax' (never finished).

The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills

To the native performers the name of _histriones_ was given, because _hister_, in the Tuscan vocabulary, was the name of an actor, who did not, as formerly, throw out alternately artless and unpolished verses like the Fescennine at random, but represented medleys complete with metre, the music being regularly adjusted for the musician, and with appropriate gesticulation.

The History of Rome, Books 01 to 08 Titus Livius

I wish, however, they had excepted from their unqualified panegyrics the coarse imitation of the Fescennine poems, which leaves in our minds a stronger impression of the prevalence and extent of Roman vices, than any other passage in the Latin classics.

The Satyricon — Volume 06: Editor's Notes 20-66 Petronius Arbiter