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E. Cobham Brewer 1810–1897. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898.
 
Cento.
 
Poetry made up of lines borrowed from established authors. Auso’nius has a nuptial idyll composed from verses selected from Virgil. (Latin, cento, patchwork.)   1
   The best known are the Homrocentones (3 syl.), the Cento Virgilianus by Proba Falconia (4th century), and the Cento Nuptilis of Ausonius. Metellus made hymns out of the Odes of Horace by this sort of patchwork. Of modern centos, the Comédie des Comédies, made up of extracts from Balzac, is pretty well known.   2
 


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