Gay, licentious, or scurrilous verses of a personal character, extemporized by performers at merry meetings, to amuse the audience, originating at Fescennium.
(Rom. Hist.) Recited extemporaneously by the youth of Latium and Etruria, first, it is said, at Fescennia, a town of Etruria, at rustic festivals ; playfully abusive ; out of which grew Satire, the only native poetry of Italy.
