Pervigilium

The “Pervigilium Veneris” is written in a quaint and affected taste, and seems unworthy of the noble simplicity of the reign of Augustus.

A Philosophical Dictionary 2007

Eve here taken strictly -- the night before May-day, like the _Pervigilium

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Vol 58, No. 357, July 1845 Various

The passage, though elaborately ornate, is executed in the clear hard manner of the Alexandrian school; it has not a trace of that sensitiveness to nature which vibrates in the _Pervigilium

Latin Literature 1902

The best monks are the worst, and those who sing "Pervigilium Veneris" in place of matins are less dangerous than such as reason, preach, and plot.

The Eve of the French Revolution 1869

[4] The author of the "Pervigilium Veneris" (a poem attributed to

The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes Thomas Moore 1815