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Definition of Fescennine
1. a. Pertaining to, or resembling, the Fescennines.
Definition of Fescennine
1. Adjective. Of or pertaining to the ancient Etruscan town of Fescennia ¹
2. Adjective. obscene or scurrilous ¹
3. Adjective. Obscene or scurrilous. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Fescennine
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fescennine
Literary usage of Fescennine
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Svrvay of London: Contayning the Originall, Antiquity, Increase, Moderne by John Stow (1890)
"There are others who employ in epigrams, rhymes, and verses the old trifling
banter, and with fescennine license freely pull their comrades to pieces, ..."
2. A Smaller History of Rome: From the Earliest Times to the Establishment of by William Smith, Eugene Lawrence (1889)
"These fescennine Songs were rude dialogues, in which the country people assailed
and ridiculed one another in extempore verses, and which were introduced as ..."
3. Teuffels̓ History of Roman Literature by Wilhelm Sigismund Teuffel (1891)
"... this kind were the fescennine songs, the Saturae, the Mimi, and later on the
... fescennine ..."
4. The Egyptian Sketch Book by Charles Godfrey Leland (1874)
"An Antique fescennine Play. THE first thing that astonishes the stranger in Egypt,
especially if he comes from England, is the weather. ..."
5. History of Roman Literature from Its Earliest Period to the Augustan Age by John Colin Dunlop (1827)
"authors, on the subject of the satiric poetry of the Romans. Casaubon traces its
early history in the fescennine verses, ..."
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