Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Why should I mention all and each? how chattered alternate
  2. With Sagana these ghosts, now sad-toned then in sharp treble.
  3. How too the head of a wolf with fangs of variegate adder
  4. Furtive they buried in earth, whereat for the waxen imago
  5. Fiercelier flamed the fire and how (no unavenged witness!)
  6. I was o'erwhelmed by the words and the deeds of these Furies well-coupled;
  7. For that like bladder that bursts with a loud explosion I farted
  8. From my cleft buttocks of fig. Hereat they ran to the city,
  9. Canidia's false teeth with Sagana's towering hair-tour
  10. Falling aground and herbs and magical armlets on forearms
  11. Showed to beholder's sight with many a joke and much laughter.