Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- Carved me no rustic boor his artless sickle a-plying:
- Here of the bailiff thou see'st noble and notable work;
- For that the wealthiest swain who owns the lands Caërétan
- (Hilarus) holds these hills sloping in sunniest folds.
- See with my well-shaped face how seem I not to be wooden,
- Nor do I bear belly-tools fitted for kitchen or fire: