{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/prp28.htm","path":"cla/priap/prp28.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/prp28.htm","text":"Obscenis, peream, Priape, si non\n uti me pudet improbisque verbis.\n sed cum tu posito deus pudore\n ostendas mihi coleos patentes,\n cum cunno mihi mentula est vocanda.\nPriapus! perish I an words obscene\n And wicked terms to use I'm not ashamed:\n But whenas thou, a god (bylaying shame),\n To me displayest bollocks evident,\n With Coynte the Prickle I must baldly name.\nMay I die,[2] Priapus, if I do not blush to make use of lewd and impure words; but when you, a deity without shame, display to me your balls in all openness, I must call a tool a tool, a coynte a coynte.\n[1. Thy mouth shall serve as the instrument of thy punishment.\n2. A favourite formula of oath amongst the Romans.]","title":"28. Priapus! perish I an words obscene","type":"page"}