Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. With Sagana these ghosts, now sad-toned then in sharp treble.
  2. How too the head of a wolf with fangs of variegate adder
  3. Furtive they buried in earth, whereat for the waxen imago
  4. Fiercelier flamed the fire and how (no unavenged witness!)
  5. I was o'erwhelmed by the words and the deeds of these Furies well-coupled;