Priapeia

Priaepia

by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers

  1. Thou, who art 'customed to view around the walls of our temple
  2. Verse of a strain jocose rather than modest and chaste,
  3. Cease to be hurt by the song obscene, for verily ne'er was
  4. Wont our mentule to wear eyebrow up-drawn in surprise.
  1. A certain person, an thou please (Priapus!),