Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Bacchus often is wont with a moderate bunch to be sated,
  2. When the deep brim-full vats hardly the must shall contain;
  3. So when the threshing-floors all fail for the plentiful harvest
  4. Ceres' ringlets to crown only one garland we bring.
  5. Thou too, a minor god, example borrow from the major--
  6. Though few apples we give, take thou our gift in good part.