{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/1stline.htm","path":"cla/priap/1stline.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/1stline.htm","text":"Sacred Texts\u00a0\n Classical Paganism\u00a0\n Sacred Sexuality\u00a0\n Index\u00a0\n \n \n A certain person, an thou please (Priapus!).... [50]\n A chough, a caries, an eld-worn grave.... [57]\n A damsel drier than the raisin'd grape,.... [32]\n A robber famed for greed exceeding wonder.... [92]\n A she (than Hector's parent longer aged,.... [11]\n A starveling stranger made me laughing-stock.... [71]\n All the conditions (they say) Priapus made with the youngling.... [4]\n Although with yard distent (Priapus!) weighted.... [80]\n An fro' me woman shall thieve or plunder me man or a man-child,.... [21]\n An I rustical seem to have spoken somewhat unlearned.... [68]\n An thou pluck of this orchard fruit to my guarding committed.... [72]\n An thou would fain go filled thou mayest devour our Priapus.... [94]\n At holy offering to the Lustful GodThief, for first thieving shalt be swived, but an.... [34]\n Aye in this prickle of ours the bonniest boon to be found is.... [17]\n Bacchus often is wont with a moderate bunch to be sated.... [53]\n Bailiff Aristagoras of his grapes high-pedigree'd boasting.... [42]\n Bailiff of house whilom, now I of fieldlet the tiller.... [83]\n Carved me no rustic boor his artless sickle a-plying.... [93]\n Charged to my charge the fieldlet who shall dare.... [14]\n Darkly might I to thee say: Oh give me for ever and ever.... [2]\n Dodona is hallowed, Jupiter, to thee.... [77]\n Dreadful wi' sickle and dire with thy greater part, O Priapus!.... [29]\n E, D, an thou write, conjoining the two with a hyphen.... [54]\n First a wild-fig-tree trunk was I, not useful as timber.... [95]\n Form-charms in Mercury have might to please.... [39]\n Hadst thou as many of apples as offers of verses (Priapus!).... [60]\n Here has the bailiff, now of this plentiful garden the guardian,.... [23]\n Here' Here! nor dare expect (whoe'er thou be).... [13]\n Hie thee amid these vines whereof an thou gather a grape-bunch.... [30]\n Hither, Quirites! (here what limit is?).... [25]\n Ho girl! no whiter-skinned than Moorish man.... [46]\n Ho thou, which hardly thy rapacious hand.... [52]\n I am not hew\u00e8d of the fragile elm.... [91]\n I thuswise fashioned I by rustic art.... [87]\n In play, Priapus (thou canst testify).... [1]\n Know that this crass coarse yard nor lengthens nor stands as becomes it.... [81]\n Know, lest due warning be denied by thee.... [59]\n Long as thy wanton hand to pluck refrain.... [31]\n Matrons avoid this site, for your chaste breed.... [7]\n Neither of garden nor of blessed vine.... [85]\n Not to be moved am I; shouldst thou, Thief, venture on thieving.... [74]\n Of vergers diligent guard (Priapus!), threat.... [73]\n Oft in my speech one letter is lost; for Predicate always.... [6]\n One than a goose's marrow softer far.... [64]\n PEnelope's first syllable followed by firstling of DIdo.... [67]\n Priapus! perish I an words obscene.... [28]\n Rare as those apples wherewith Hippomenes Schoene\u00efs ravished.... [15]\n Refrain from deeming all my sayings be.... [43]\n Right through the middle of lads and of lasses a passage shall pierce.... [76]\n Roses in spring in the autumn fruits and in summer they bring me.... [86]\n Simply to thee I say whatever to say shall behove me.... [38]\n Sleep, O ye watchdogs! safe, while aid in guarding the garden.... [62]\n The Gods and Goddesses deny thy teeth.... [79]\n These tablets, sacred to the Rigid God.... [3]\n Thief, for first thieving shalt be swived, but an.... [35]\n This grove to thee devote I give, Priapus!.... [89]\n This place, O youths, I protect, nor less this turf-builded cottage.... [88]\n This staff of office cut from tree as 'tis,.... [24]\n This, with his snout aye alert to uproot the lilies a-blowing.... [65]\n Tho' see you drench\u00e8d wet that part of me.... [48]\n Thou shalt be pedicate (lad!), thou also (lass!) shalt be rogered.... [12]\n Thou too dost mock me, Thief! and the infamous.... [56]\n Thou who with prickle affrightest men and passives with sickle!.... [90]\n Thou, of unrighteous thought, that hardly canst.... [27]\n Thou, who art 'customed to view around the walls of our temple.... [49]\n Thou, who lest manly mark thy glances meet.... [66]\n Though I be ag\u00e8d now, though head and chin.... [78]\n Though I be wooden Priapus (as thou see'st).... [5]\n Thunders are under Jove; with the trident weaponed is Neptune.... [19]\n 'Tis not enough, my friends, I set my seat.... [63]\n 'Ware of my catching! If caught, with rod I never will harm thee.... [10]\n We all show special notes of bodily shape:.... [36]\n Wealth is my loss! Do thou vouchsafe lend aid to my prayer,.... [20]\n Well-known darling of folk in the Circus Maximus far famed,.... [26]\n What be this pother? For what cause suspects.... [51]\n What hast thou, meddling watch, with me to do?.... [16]\n What news be here? what send those angry gods?.... [84]\n What shouldest say this spear (although I'm wooden) be wishing.... [44]\n What then? Had Trojan yard Taenerian dame and her Cunnus.... [69]\n Whatever thief shall trick my faith may he.... [58]\n When the fig's honied sweet thy taste shall catch.... [70]\n Whenas the Rigid God espied a wight.... [45]\n While there is life 'tis fitting to hope, O rustical guardian!.... [82]\n Who could believe my words? 'Tis shame to confess that the sickle.... [55]\n Who of you people here shall come to sup.... [47]\n Whoso comes hither shall a bard become.... [41]\n Whoso of violets here shall pluck or rose,.... [22]\n 'Why be my parts obscene displayed without cover?' thou askest.... [8]\n Why laugh such laughter, O most silly maid?.... [9]\n Why on memorial tablet do they limn.... [37]\n Why, cultivator, vainly moan to me.... [61]\n Why, O ye pathic girls, with sidelong oglings observe me?.... [75]\n Will ever Telethusa, posture-mime.... [18]\n Wont the Priapi of old were to have both Naiads and Dryads.... [33]\n Yon Telethusa befamed amid the damsels Suburran.... [40]","title":"Priapeia: Alphabetical List of first lines","type":"page"}