Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. And seething Lemnos of the limping Sire;
  2. Ennéan matrons unto Ceres flock,
  3. To the raped Goddess oystery Cyzicus;
  4. Gnidos and Paphos lovely Venus hail
  5. While mortals dedicate Lampsacus to thee.
  1. Though I be agèd now, though head and chin