Priapeia

Priaepia

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

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