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A Rare Specimen of Vandalic

From Anthologia Latina 285:


From what I’ve read, this is not Gothic (goticum is just a general term), but the language of the Vandals, who are portrayed as enjoying eating and drinking (matzia ia drincan) at a convivium, but not poetry.

P.S. I like the metrical joke in the last line–the switch from hexameter to pentameter to complement the sense.