Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Nor the decaying of long, drawn-out eld.
  2. Dread this (O evil one!) whoe'er thou be!
  3. For an thou injure with thy greedy hand
  4. The least of bunches by this vine-stock borne
  5. Shall spring (howe'er thou may oppose) for thee
  6. A fig-tree grafted from this cypress-stem.
  1. A robber famed for greed exceeding wonder
  2. (Eke a Cilician) would this garden plunder;
  3. Yet in its vasty space, Fabullus, naught
  4. Save a Priapus stood in marble wrought
  5. So the Cilician, who with hand sans pelf
  6. Scornèd departing, stole Priapus' self.
  1. Carved me no rustic boor his artless sickle a-plying:
  2. Here of the bailiff thou see'st noble and notable work;