| The original fescennine verse appears, from the testimony of Horace, to have been in metrical dialogue. |
| Early native Italian jocular dialogue in Latin verse are known as Fescennine verses. |
| The principal constituent element in this fescennine poetry was obscene mockery. |
| But just as it takes two to make a quarrel, so the obscene mockery of the fescennine verses required two principals. |
| At this hour the seat was as in a theatre, but the words of the actors were of a nature somewhat too Fescennine for the public. |
| Fescennine verse, Latin Fescennini versus, also called carmina Fescennina, early native Italian jocular dialogue in Latin verse. |
