{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/prp41.htm","path":"cla/priap/prp41.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/prp41.htm","text":"Quisquis venerit huc, poeta fiat\n et versus mihi dedicet iocosos.\n qui non fecerit, inter eruditos\n ficosissimus ambulet poetas.\nWhoso comes hither shall a bard become\n And to me dedicate facetious verse;\n But who thiswise doth not, 'mid learn\u00e8d poets\n Shall pace with fundament fulfilled of 'figs'.\nWhoever comes hither let him become a poet and dedicate to me jocose verses. He who does not, shall, teeming with piles,[1] walk amongst learned poets.\n[1. Piles were a frequent result of sodomy. The word ficus means primarily a fig, and piles were so called from their resemblance in shape to that fruit.]","title":"41. Whoso comes hither shall a bard become","type":"page"}