Priapeia
Priaepia
by divers poets in English verse and prose. Translated by Sir Richard Burton and Leonard C. Smithers
- With Sagana these ghosts, now sad-toned then in sharp treble.
- How too the head of a wolf with fangs of variegate adder
- Furtive they buried in earth, whereat for the waxen imago
- Fiercelier flamed the fire and how (no unavenged witness!)
- I was o'erwhelmed by the words and the deeds of these Furies well-coupled;
- For that like bladder that bursts with a loud explosion I farted
- From my cleft buttocks of fig. Hereat they ran to the city,
- Canidia's false teeth with Sagana's towering hair-tour
- Falling aground and herbs and magical armlets on forearms
- Showed to beholder's sight with many a joke and much laughter.