Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Delia the Cretan Isle and Cynthian hills;
  2. Faunus hath Maenalos and Arcadian groves.
  3. Rhodos is happy protégé of Sol;
  4. Gades and Tibur dank of Hercules;
  5. Snowy Cyllene of the swift-paced God
  6. And seething Lemnos of the limping Sire;
  7. Ennéan matrons unto Ceres flock,
  8. To the raped Goddess oystery Cyzicus;