{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/prp20.htm","path":"cla/priap/prp20.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/prp20.htm","text":"Copia me perdit: tu suffragare rogatus\n \u00a0\u00a0 indicio nec me prode, Priape, tuo,\n quaeque tibi posui tamquam vernacula poma,\n \u00a0\u00a0 de sacra nulli dixeris esse via.\nWealth is my loss! Do thou vouchsafe lend aid to my prayer,\n Nor, by thy signal shown, me, O Priapus, betray:\n Whatso before thee I laid, of home-grown apples the firstlings,\n (Prithee, be pleased not to tell!) from Via Sacra be ta'en.\nAll my wealth have I lost; be propitious when I ask thee, nor betray me, Priapus, by word or deed. Tell it to none, that these home-grown apples, which I have placed on thy altar, are from the Sacred Way.[1]","title":"20. Wealth is my loss! Do thou vouchsafe lend aid to my prayer,","type":"page"}