Priapeia

Priaepia

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

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