Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Now if I false in aught be, my head bewrayed with white mutings
  2. Dropt by the crows and hither repair to bepiss and conskite me
  3. Julius, frail Pediatia and eke Voranus the robber.
  4. Why should I mention all and each? how chattered alternate
  5. With Sagana these ghosts, now sad-toned then in sharp treble.
  6. How too the head of a wolf with fangs of variegate adder
  7. Furtive they buried in earth, whereat for the waxen imago
  8. Fiercelier flamed the fire and how (no unavenged witness!)
  9. I was o'erwhelmed by the words and the deeds of these Furies well-coupled;
  10. For that like bladder that bursts with a loud explosion I farted