PRIAPEIA

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SPORTIVE EPIGRAMS ON PRIAPUS

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Epigrams

To the Reader 1. In play, Priapus (thou canst testify)2. Darkly might I to thee say: Oh give me for ever and ever 3. These tablets, sacred to the Rigid God 4. All the conditions (they say) Priapus made with the youngling 5. Though I be wooden Priapus (as thou see'st)6. Oft in my speech one letter is lost; for Predicate always 7. Matrons avoid this site, for your chaste breed 8. 'Why be my parts obscene displayed without cover?' thou askest 9. Why laugh such laughter, O most silly maid?10. 'Ware of my catching! If caught, with rod I never will harm thee 11. A she (than Hector's parent longer aged,12. Thou shalt be pedicate (lad!), thou also (lass!) shalt be rogered 13. Here' Here! nor dare expect (whoe'er thou be)14. Charged to my charge the fieldlet who shall dare 15. Rare as those apples wherewith Hippomenes Schoeneïs ravished 16. What hast thou, meddling watch, with me to do?17. Aye in this prickle of ours the bonniest boon to be found is 18. Will ever Telethusa, posture-mime 19. Thunders are under Jove; with the trident weaponed is Neptune 20. Wealth is my loss! Do thou vouchsafe lend aid to my prayer,21. An fro' me woman shall thieve or plunder me man or a man-child,22. Whoso of violets here shall pluck or rose,23. Here has the bailiff, now of this plentiful garden the guardian,24. This staff of office cut from tree as 'tis,25. Hither, Quirites! (here what limit is?)26. Well-known darling of folk in the Circus Maximus far famed,27. Thou, of unrighteous thought, that hardly canst 28. Priapus! perish I an words obscene 29. Dreadful wi' sickle and dire with thy greater part, O Priapus!30. Hie thee amid these vines whereof an thou gather a grape-bunch 31. Long as thy wanton hand to pluck refrain 32. A damsel drier than the raisin'd grape,33. Wont the Priapi of old were to have both Naiads and Dryads 34. At holy offering to the Lustful GodThief, for first thieving shalt be swived, but an 35. Thief, for first thieving shalt be swived, but an 36. We all show special notes of bodily shape:37. Why on memorial tablet do they limn 38. Simply to thee I say whatever to say shall behove me 39. Form-charms in Mercury have might to please 40. Yon Telethusa befamed amid the damsels Suburran 41. Whoso comes hither shall a bard become 42. Bailiff Aristagoras of his grapes high-pedigree'd boasting 43. Refrain from deeming all my sayings be 44. What shouldest say this spear (although I'm wooden) be wishing 45. Whenas the Rigid God espied a wight 46. Ho girl! no whiter-skinned than Moorish man 47. Who of you people here shall come to sup 48. Tho' see you drench�d wet that part of me 49. Thou, who art 'customed to view around the walls of our temple 50. A certain person, an thou please (Priapus!)51. What be this pother? For what cause suspects 52. Ho thou, which hardly thy rapacious hand 53. Bacchus often is wont with a moderate bunch to be sated 54. E, D, an thou write, conjoining the two with a hyphen 55. Who could believe my words? 'Tis shame to confess that the sickle 56. Thou too dost mock me, Thief! and the infamous 57. A chough, a caries, an eld-worn grave 58. Whatever thief shall trick my faith may he 59. Know, lest due warning be denied by thee 60. Hadst thou as many of apples as offers of verses (Priapus!)61. Why, cultivator, vainly moan to me 62. Sleep, O ye watchdogs! safe, while aid in guarding the garden 63. 'Tis not enough, my friends, I set my seat 64. One than a goose's marrow softer far 65. This, with his snout aye alert to uproot the lilies a-blowing 66. Thou, who lest manly mark thy glances meet 67. PEnelope's first syllable followed by firstling of DIdo 68. An I rustical seem to have spoken somewhat unlearned 69. What then? Had Trojan yard Taenerian dame and her Cunnus 70. When the fig's honied sweet thy taste shall catch 71. A starveling stranger made me laughing-stock 72. An thou pluck of this orchard fruit to my guarding committed 73. Of vergers diligent guard (Priapus!), threat 74. Not to be moved am I; shouldst thou, Thief, venture on thieving 75. Why, O ye pathic girls, with sidelong oglings observe me?76. Right through the middle of lads and of lasses a passage shall pierce 77. Dodona is hallowed, Jupiter, to thee 78. Though I be ag�d now, though head and chin 79. The Gods and Goddesses deny thy teeth 80. Although with yard distent (Priapus!) weighted 81. Know that this crass coarse yard nor lengthens nor stands as becomes it 82. While there is life 'tis fitting to hope, O rustical guardian!83. Bailiff of house whilom, now I of fieldlet the tiller 84. What news be here? what send those angry gods?85. Neither of garden nor of blessed vine 86. Roses in spring in the autumn fruits and in summer they bring me 87. I thuswise fashioned I by rustic art 88. This place, O youths, I protect, nor less this turf-builded cottage 89. This grove to thee devote I give, Priapus!90. Thou who with prickle affrightest men and passives with sickle!91. I am not hew�d of the fragile elm 92. A robber famed for greed exceeding wonder 93. Carved me no rustic boor his artless sickle a-plying 94. An thou would fain go filled thou mayest devour our Priapus 95. First a wild-fig-tree trunk was I, not useful as timber

Notes

A list of terms used in the Priapeia as designations of Priapus List of terms used in the Priapeia to designate the virile member of Priapus Alphabetical list of additional terms used by Latin authors in designation of the male sexual organ List of terms used in the Priapeia to designate the female sexual organ Alphabetical list of additional terms used by Latin authors in designation of the female sexual organ Sodomy with Women Erotic Classical Writers List of agricultural and horticultural terms used tropically in a venereal sense Sodomy Irrumation The Supine Posture in Coition Dancing Girls Masturbation Depilation by Catamites Braccae Bestiality Postures of Coition Infibulation The Cunnilinges