Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Rhodos is happy protégé of Sol;
  2. Gades and Tibur dank of Hercules;
  3. Snowy Cyllene of the swift-paced God
  4. And seething Lemnos of the limping Sire;
  5. Ennéan matrons unto Ceres flock,
  6. To the raped Goddess oystery Cyzicus;
  7. Gnidos and Paphos lovely Venus hail