Fescennine verse

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According to Livy, Andronicus was the first who substituted, for the rude extemporaneous effusions of the Fescennine verse, plays with a regular plot and fable.

From Handbook of Universal Literature From the Best and Latest Authorities by Botta, Anne C. Lynch

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.

From Lays of Ancient Rome by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

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

From The Roman Poets of the Republic by Sellar, W. Y.