fescennine

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.

Fescennine verses of the Romans, which were used at weddings and triumphs, were intended to ward off ill luck.

The original Fescennine verse appears, from the testimony of Horace, to have been in metrical dialogue.

The Fescennine raillery long retained traces of this original character.