Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Usefuller Tydeus was albeit (an trust we to Homer)
- In his diminutive frame dwelt a pugnacious soul.
- Yet from this strangeness and shame could nothing ever avail us
- And such damage I deem better it were to repel.
- While there is life 'tis fitting to hope, O rustical guardian!
- Here be thou present and thou aid us, Priapus stiff-nerved.