{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/prp65.htm","path":"cla/priap/prp65.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/prp65.htm","text":"Hic tibi, qui rostro crescentia lilia mersit,\n \u00a0\u00a0 caeditur e tepida victima porcus hara:\n ne tamen exanimum facias pecus omne, Priape,\n \u00a0\u00a0 horti sit, facias, ianua clausa tui.\nThis, with his snout aye alert to uproot the lilies a-blowing,\n Slain for thy victim 's the pig bred in the stye's tepid reek.\n But, an thy will be not to murther the herd, O Priapus,\n Grant of thy grace yon gate into the garden be shut.\nThis pig, which has crushed the rising lilies with his snout, is sacrificed to thee--a victim warm from the stye. But lest thou shouldst cause the whole herd to be annihilated, O Priapus, bid the gate of thy garden to be closed.[2]\n[1. The effeminate come, allured by the pleasure of being sodomised.\n2. The priestesses of Priapus were sometimes represented in marble sculptures as clothed with hides of swine.]","title":"65. This, with his snout aye alert to uproot the lilies a-blowing","type":"page"}