Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Faunus hath Maenalos and Arcadian groves.
  2. Rhodos is happy protégé of Sol;
  3. Gades and Tibur dank of Hercules;
  4. Snowy Cyllene of the swift-paced God
  5. And seething Lemnos of the limping Sire;
  6. Ennéan matrons unto Ceres flock,
  7. To the raped Goddess oystery Cyzicus;
  8. Gnidos and Paphos lovely Venus hail