{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/prp07.htm","path":"cla/priap/prp07.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/prp07.htm","text":"Matronae procul hinc abite castae:\n turpe est vos legere impudica verba.-\n non assis faciunt euntque recta:\n nimirum sapiunt videntque magnam\n matronae quoque mentulam libenter.\nMatrons avoid this site, for your chaste breed\n 'Twere vile these verses impudique to read.\n They still come on and not a doit they heed!\n O'ermuch these matrons know and they regard\n With willing glances this my vasty yard.\nGo far hence, ye virtuous wives, 'tis unseemly for you to read lewd verses.[1] They care not an as [for my words],[2] and straightway approach. Verily these matrons are sensible, and look joyfully, too, on the well-grown mentule.\n[1. The obscene inscriptions scrawled on the base of his statue.\n2. A Roman copper coin of small value.]","title":"7. Matrons avoid this site, for your chaste breed","type":"page"}