Citations:Fescennina licentia


 * 1897 October 27th, The Times, № 35,345, “Mr. Henley’s ‘Burns’” (Review), page 10/3:
 * To be interesting and original on a theme so worn as Burns is a triumph. Absolute originality is, of course, impossible. We all know, if we care to face the truth, that Burns was a peasant, addicted to the Fescennina licentia, the victim of the wildest passions, hypochondriacal, in art the inheritor of an old vernacular tradition — not romantic, not chivalrous, as Sir Walter Scott annoyed his admirers by saying.