Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. 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;
  5. Hercules' right is armed with the club that cannot be conquer'd;