Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Thou who bidest so chaste with mind ever set upon banquets
  2. And with a futtering crew alway thy palace was filled:
  3. Then that thou learn of these which were most potent of swiving,
  4. Wont wast thou to bespeak, saying to suitors erect--
  5. 'Than my Ulysses none was better at drawing the bowstring
  6. Whether by muscles of side or by superior skill;