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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—P

Pugna Porcorum

(Battle of the Pigs). The most celebrated poem of alliterative verse, extending to 253 Latin hexameters, in which every word begins with p.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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