Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Pantolabus the buffoon and Nomentanus the rake-hell.
  2. Frontage a thousand feet, three hundred fieldwards, a land mark
  3. Here assigned, lest the ground monumental follow the heir folk.
  4. Now 'tis salubrious made: one fives in th' Esquiliae, also
  5. Walks on the sunny mound, where erstwhile showed to folk sad-eyed
  6. Fields by bones deformed a-glistening ghostly and ghastly;
  7. Yet for me never was aught, or thieves or ferals accustomed
  8. This foul spot to behaunt, a cause of such care and such trouble
  9. As are the hags who by spells and poisons upset and envenom
  10. Spirits and minds of mankind; these nowise bring to perdition