{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/prp19.htm","path":"cla/priap/prp19.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/prp19.htm","text":"Fulmina sub Iove sunt, Neptuni fuscina telum,\n \u00a0\u00a0 ense potens Mars est, hasta, Minerva, tua est,\n sutilibus Liber committit proelia thyrsis,\n \u00a0\u00a0 fertur Apollinea missa sagitta manu,\n Herculis armata est invicta dextera clava:\n \u00a0\u00a0 at me terribilem mentula tenta facit.\nThunders are under Jove; with the trident weaponed is Neptune;\n Forceful is Mars with brand, spear, O Minerva, is thine;\n Liber engages in fray, confiding on sheaflets of Thyrsi;\n By th' Apollinean hand shafts (they assure us) are shot;\n Hercules' right is armed with the club that cannot be conquer'd;\n But a distended yard makes me an object of awe.\nJove controls the thunderbolts; the trident is Neptune's weapon; Mars is mighty by the sword; thine, Minerva, is the spear. Bacchus fights his battles with a bundle of thyrsi; the bolt, we are told, is shot by Apollo's hand. Hercules' invincible right arm is equipped with a club; but a mentule at full stretch makes me appalling.","title":"19. Thunders are under Jove; with the trident weaponed is...","type":"page"}