Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Pallas preserveth the Cecropian towers;
  2. Pythius Delphos, navel of the world;
  3. Delia the Cretan Isle and Cynthian hills;
  4. Faunus hath Maenalos and Arcadian groves.
  5. Rhodos is happy protégé of Sol;
  6. Gades and Tibur dank of Hercules;
  7. Snowy Cyllene of the swift-paced God
  8. And seething Lemnos of the limping Sire;
  9. Ennéan matrons unto Ceres flock,
  10. To the raped Goddess oystery Cyzicus;
  11. Gnidos and Paphos lovely Venus hail
  12. While mortals dedicate Lampsacus to thee.
  1. Though I be agèd now, though head and chin
  2. Now show them hoary-hue'd with grizzling hair,