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Pervigilium Veneris, the Vigil of Venus, is a Latin poem. The author, date, and place of composition are unknown. The poem was probably written in the 2nd or 3rd century AD. An article signed "L. Raquettius" in the May 1905 issue of Classical Review assigns it to Sidonius Apollinaris (5th century), but this is not generally accepted. It was written professedly in early spring on the eve of a three-nights' festival of Venus (probably April 1 - 3). The setting seems to be Sicily. The poem describes the annual awakening of the vegetable and animal world through the goddess. It consists of ninety-three verses in trochaic septenarii, and is divided into strophes of unequal length by the refrain:
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