{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/prp83.htm","path":"cla/priap/prp83.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/prp83.htm","text":"Vilicus aerari quondam, nunc cultor agelli\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0haec tibi perspectus templa, Priape, dico.\n Pro quibus officiis si fas est, sancte, paciscor,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0assiduus custos ruris ut esse velis.\n Improbus ut si quis nostrum violarit agellum,\n \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0hunc tu -- sed tento. Scis, puto, quod sequitur.\nBailiff of house whilom, now I of fieldlet the tiller;\n Perspectus, these fanes give (O Priapus!) to thee.\n So for such offices make I pact (if lawful, O Holy)\n Thou of this farm shalt bide ever-assiduous guard.\n And if a rogue come rob our field or venture to trespass\n Him thou may'st--Hush! for I know whatso shall follow thou know'st.\nOnce a household steward, now the tiller of a little field, I, Perspectus, consecrate these temples to thee, O Priapus. For which kind offices I stipulate (if it be righteous, O holy one) that thou may'st be the assiduous protector of the farm; that if any dishonest fellow shall profane our little field, him thou mayst--But silence! I think thou know'st what follows behind.","title":"83. Bailiff of house whilom, now I of fieldlet the tiller","type":"page"}