Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Will ever Telethusa, posture-mime,
  2. Who with no tunic veiling hinder cheeks
  3. Higher than her vitals heaves with apter geste
  4. Wriggle to please thee with her wavy loins?
  5. So thee, Priapus, not alone she'll move
  6. E'en Phaedra's stepson shall her movement rouse.
  1. Thunders are under Jove; with the trident weaponed is Neptune;
  2. Forceful is Mars with brand, spear, O Minerva, is thine;
  3. Liber engages in fray, confiding on sheaflets of Thyrsi;
  4. By th' Apollinean hand shafts (they assure us) are shot;