Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Who could believe my words? 'Tis shame to confess that the sickle
- Yon thief-folk have availed e'en from my fingers to thieve.
- Nor doth its loss so much affect my mind or dishonour
- As the just, natural dread other my weapons to lose,
- Which lost shall I stand mulcted of country, and he that was erewhile
- Son of the city to thee, Lampsacus! Gaul shall become.