Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Simpler far to declare in our Latin, Lend me thy buttocks;
  2. What shall I say to thee else? Dull's the Minerva of me.
  1. These tablets, sacred to the Rigid God,
  2. From Elephantis' obscene booklets drawn,
  3. Lalage offers and she prays thee try
  4. To ply the painted figures' every part.
  1. All the conditions (they say) Priapus made with the youngling
  2. Written in verses twain mortals hereunder can read:
  3. 'Whatso my garden contains to thee shall be lawfullest plunder