Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Dodona is hallowed, Jupiter, to thee;
  2. To Juno Samos and to Dis Mykenae;
  3. While Taenarus' billowy seas confess the King.
  4. Pallas preserveth the Cecropian towers;
  5. Pythius Delphos, navel of the world;
  6. Delia the Cretan Isle and Cynthian hills;
  7. Faunus hath Maenalos and Arcadian groves.
  8. Rhodos is happy protégé of Sol;
  9. Gades and Tibur dank of Hercules;
  10. Snowy Cyllene of the swift-paced God
  11. And seething Lemnos of the limping Sire;
  12. Ennéan matrons unto Ceres flock,
  13. To the raped Goddess oystery Cyzicus;
  14. Gnidos and Paphos lovely Venus hail
  15. While mortals dedicate Lampsacus to thee.