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Poetry
Pvcna porcorvm
Read it in the Library After Dark Or read it as plain textA mock-epic battle of the pigs in which every single word begins with the letter P. It was printed in the sixteenth century under the name Publius Porcius Poeta. It is exactly as absurd, and as clever, as it sounds.
The librarian
- Reading time
- About 8 minutes
- Where to find it
- The Latin Reading Room
- Edition
- Project Gutenberg, eBook #70569. In the public domain in the United States.