It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse.


Lays of Ancient Rome (ed. 1843)

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It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government,...

It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government,...

It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government,...

It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government,...