Pugna Porcorum
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Pugna Porcorum (1546, English: Battle of the Pigs) is a poem by Johannes Placentius. It is a tautogram whose every word begins with the letter 'P'.
Its full text can be found here.
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Excerpt
- Plaudite, porcelli; porcorum pigra propago Progreditur.
- Paraclesis pro Potore
- Perlege porcorum pulcherrima proelia, Potor,
- Potando poteris placidam proferre poesin.
Poema
Continentur 253 versus hexametris scripti. Omnia verba incipiunt cum littera P. Editum est primum poema Antverpiae anno 1530, 1546 Lovanii et 1644, apud Gasparum Myrrheum, Melchiorem Thureum, & Balthasarum Aureum, 1681-mo, Londinii 1741.
References
- The most celebrated poem of alliterative verse, extending to 253 Latin hexameters, in which every word begins with p. --Dictionary of Phrase and Fable
See also
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