 [fĕśə-nīń, -nēń]
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A.Word.A.Day--fescennine [After Fescennia, a town of ancient Etruria known for its ribald and scurrilous songs sung at festivals and weddings.] The sun is pure communism everywhere except in cities, where it's private property. -Malcolm De Chazal, writer and painter (1902-1981)
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Fescennine Verses - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Fescennine Verses (Fescennina carmina), one of the earliest kinds of Italian poetry, subsequently developed into the Satura and the Roman comic drama. Originally sung at village harvest-home rejoicin...
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fescennine ( ) adj. Licentious; obscene. [Latin Fescennīnus , of Fescennia, a town of ancient Etruria known for its licentious.
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Fescennine. Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. Offensive to accepted standards of decency: barnyard, bawdy, broad, coarse, dirty, filthy, foul, Slang : raunchy. See DECENT.
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fescennine. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. ETYMOLOGY: Latin Fescenn nus, of Fescennia, a town of ancient Etruria known for its licentious poetry.
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Tiscali Quicklinks. Please visit our Accessibility Page for a list of the Access Keys you can use to find your way around the site, skip directly to the main navigation, to the page content, Dictionary of Difficult Words - Fescennine a. pertaining to poetry and inhabitants of ancient Fescinnia, Italy; indecent;
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The Fescennine verses are thought to be different from the performance the Romans instituted on the occasion of a great plague in 363-4 B The name Fescennine comes either from the Etruscan town of Fescennium (as Atellan is assumed to come from the Oscan town of Atella) or from a word for warding off witchcraft (fascinum).
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A History of Roman Literature: From the Earliest Period to the Death of Marcus Aurelius Mommsen has truly remarked that the culminating point of Roman development was the period which had no literature. The cause of this striking deficiency is to be sought in the original characteristics of the Latin race.
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