Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Canidia, nude-foot, long hair bestrewing her shoulders,
  2. Howling with Sagana th' elder (and paleness had rendered the couple
  3. Horrid of mien); anon both the ground with their talons
  4. Clawing, and black-fleeced lamb with teeth a-tearing to tatters
  5. Either began; its gore in a ditch was spillèd, so thereby
  6. Ghosts might be raised from graves and answers give to their queries.
  7. Images too there were, this of wool, that of wax, and the greater
  8. Woollen that seemed with pains about to punish the lesser
  9. Suppliant standing in wax as one foredoomèd to perish
  10. After a servile way. One calls on Hecate, th' other
  11. Summons fell Tisiphone; then mightest thou look upon serpents