{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/prp44.htm","path":"cla/priap/prp44.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/prp44.htm","text":"Velle quid hanc dicas, quamvis sim ligneus, hastam,\n \u00a0\u00a0 oscula dat medio si qua puella mihi?\n augure non opus est: 'in me' mihi credite, dixit\n \u00a0\u00a0 'aptetur veris usibus hasta rudis'.\nWhat shouldest say this spear (although I'm wooden) be wishing\n Whenas a maiden chance me in the middle to kiss?\n Here none augur we: need: believe my word she is saying -\n 'Let the rude spear in me work with its natural wont!'\nWhat dost thou say this spear, although I be wooden, is wishing, if any girl give kisses to my middle? It needs no soothsayer, for, believe me, she has said, 'The rude spear will exercise its true functions on me.'[1]","title":"44. What shouldest say this spear (although I'm wooden) be wishing","type":"page"}