Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- 'Ware of my catching! If caught, with rod I never will harm thee
- Nor to thee deal sore wound using my sickle that curves.
- Pierced with a foot-long pole thy skin shall be stretched in such fashion
- Thou shalt be fain to believe ne'er had a wrinkle thine arse.
- A she (than Hector's parent longer aged,
- Sister to Cumae's Sibyl seemeth me;
- Equal to thee whom, to his home returned,
- Theseus found lying in the fosse a-cold!)