Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. While Taenarus' billowy seas confess the King.
  2. Pallas preserveth the Cecropian towers;
  3. Pythius Delphos, navel of the world;
  4. Delia the Cretan Isle and Cynthian hills;
  5. Faunus hath Maenalos and Arcadian groves.
  6. Rhodos is happy protégé of Sol;