Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Whose home be Lampsacus and holt, Priapus!
  2. For thee in cities worship most the shores
  3. Of Hellespont the richest oystery strand.
  1. Thou who with prickle affrightest men and passives with sickle!
  2. Of the secluded spot deign the few acres to guard;
  3. So may the veteran thieves ne'er force their way to thine orchards;