Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Yet though lifeless now and a pole to no one of service,
  2. Build me an altar and it shall be of service to all.
  1. Right through the middle of lads and of lasses a passage shall pierce
  2. This yard, yet shall it touch bearded ones only aloft.
  1. Dodona is hallowed, Jupiter, to thee;
  2. To Juno Samos and to Dis Mykenae;
  3. While Taenarus' billowy seas confess the King.
  4. Pallas preserveth the Cecropian towers;
  5. Pythius Delphos, navel of the world;
  6. Delia the Cretan Isle and Cynthian hills;
  7. Faunus hath Maenalos and Arcadian groves.
  8. Rhodos is happy protégé of Sol;
  9. Gades and Tibur dank of Hercules;
  10. Snowy Cyllene of the swift-paced God