英语词汇“Atellan”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

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Atellan

释义

Atellan, a. and n.|əˈtɛlən|
Also Att-.
[ad. L. Atellānus, f. Atella, a town in Campania.]
A. adj. Of or pertaining to Atella, which was famous for its popular satirical and, in later times, licentious farces; hence, farcical, ribald.
1600P. Holland tr. Livy vii. 251 The Actours in the Atellane interludes.1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 106 Of whom some Attelan or ridiculous jeering rimes were made.c1710Shaftesbury Charac. (1749) II. 170 Their Fescennin and Atellan way of Wit was in early days prohibited.1938R. Graves Coll. Poems 166 And what Atellan orgies of the soul Were celebrated then among the rocks They testify themselves in books That rouse Atellan laughter.
B. n. A dramatic composition of this kind.
1621Burton Anat. Mel. iii. i. i. i. 257 Many old poets..did write Fescennines, Attellanes, and lascivious songs.1875A. W. Ward Hist. Dram. Lit. I. i. 10 The ribald jests of Atellanes and mimes.
Also † Ateˈllanican a. [L. Atellānicus], = Atellan.
1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 183 Tiberius Cæsar..was called ‘Hircus vetulus,’ in the Atellanican comœdie.

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