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Excerpt from Poésies Populaires Latines Antérieures au Douzième Siècle
Communi feriat carmen triviale moneta. Juvenal, sat. VII, v. 55. Il semble cependant que les amants vaient l'usage d'improviser des vers à la perte de leurs maîtresses (curcuüo, act. Sc. 5, v. 25; peut-être même est-ce le sujet dela 6e élégie du livre I de Tibullo) mais l'amour n'avait chez les Anciens rien de véritablement poétique; voyez sur le caractère de ces sortes de chants le Cur culio, act. I, se. 2, v. 150, et ce assago de Pétrone, Satyricon, ch. 21 ormire vobis in meute est, cum sciatis Priapi ge nie pervigilium deberi!
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