Priapeia

Priaepia

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

  1. Erst to be hither borne from narrow cellules ejected
  2. Corpses by fellow-slaves were coffined in biers of the vilest.
  3. This was the common yard to ensepulchre wretched plebeians,
  4. Pantolabus the buffoon and Nomentanus the rake-hell.
  5. Frontage a thousand feet, three hundred fieldwards, a land mark
  6. Here assigned, lest the ground monumental follow the heir folk.