Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. For an thou injure with thy greedy hand
  2. The least of bunches by this vine-stock borne
  3. Shall spring (howe'er thou may oppose) for thee
  4. A fig-tree grafted from this cypress-stem.
  1. A robber famed for greed exceeding wonder
  2. (Eke a Cilician) would this garden plunder;
  3. Yet in its vasty space, Fabullus, naught
  4. Save a Priapus stood in marble wrought
  5. So the Cilician, who with hand sans pelf
  6. Scornèd departing, stole Priapus' self.