Show aa poem on one of the book collectors of philadelphia has in hasl library a volume of latin jokes that was printed in germany in 1703 says the philadelphia record the name of this volume la benales Ve nales and it contains a poem lines long wherein every wor devery single word begins with the letter p even the title page of the poem contains only ps it reads pugna porcorum Por corum per por caum the battle of the pigs by publius porcius poet here are two lines of the poem that show hoar strange alliteration so heavily laid on appears porlege porcorum por corum rima pro elta pro ferre almost Is the patience that must have been required to compose this work of 1500 words every one of which begins with a p |