Priapeia

Priaepia

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

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