{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/prp04.htm","path":"cla/priap/prp04.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/prp04.htm","text":"Quam puero legem fertur dixisse Priapus,\n \u00a0\u00a0 versibus hic infra scripta duobus erit:\n 'quod meus hortus habet, sumas impune licebit,\n \u00a0\u00a0 si dederis nobis, quod tuus hortus habet'.\nAll the conditions (they say) Priapus made with the youngling\n Written in verses twain mortals hereunder can read:\n 'Whatso my garden contains to thee shall be lawfullest plunder\n If unto us thou give whatso thy garden contains.'\nHereunder is written in two verses the condition which Priapus is said to have made with a boy:\nWhate'er my garden has is freely thine,\n If to my will thy garden[1] thou'lt consign.\n[1. A likening of the lad's posteriors to a garden.]","title":"4. All the conditions (they say) Priapus made with the youngling","type":"page"}