| Early native Italian jocular dialogue in Latin verse are known as Fescennine verses. |
| But just as it takes two to make a quarrel, so the obscene mockery of the fescennine verses required two principals. |
| The original fescennine verse appears, from the testimony of Horace, to have been in metrical dialogue. |
| The ancient Atellan farces were as full of obscenity as were the fescennine songs of broad allusions. |
| Professional actors replaced the rude, extempore Fescennine verses with dancing and singing to the flute. |
| A Fescennine song was a lewd take on what was happening in the bridal chamber. |
