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A single short phrase of verse attributed to a poet named Volumnius, preserved in a later quotation: ‘the dish of creaking (or hissing) cabbage-sprouts will be given’. It appears to come from a description of a meal, perhaps in a satirical or epigrammatic poem.
Nothing certain is known of the author, who may be identical with one of the Volumnii of the late Republic. The fragment is preserved for its vocabulary, especially the word cyma for the young shoots of cabbage, and is one of the smallest remains of lost Latin poetry.
About this edition. The Latin text comes from Musisque Deoque, the digital archive of Latin poetry (edition: J. Blänsdorf, FPL, 1995), licensed CC BY-SA. Every word has been analyzed with LatinCy, a neural language model for Latin — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from Lewis & Short’s A Latin Dictionary.