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Common Expressions: FESCENNINE VERSES

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Fescennine VersesFescennine Verses (Fescennina carmina), one of the earliest kinds of Italian poetry, subsequently developed into the Satura and the Roman comic drama. (references)

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Specialty Expressions: FESCENNINE VERSES

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Fescennine VersesLiteratureLampoons, so called from Fescennia in Tuscany, where performers at merry-makings used to extemporise scurrilous jests of a personal nature to amuse the audience. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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