{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/prp89.htm","path":"cla/priap/prp89.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/prp89.htm","text":"Hunc lucum tibi dedico consecroque, Priape,\n qua domus tua Lampsaci est quaque cella, Priape.\n Nam te praecipue in suis urbibus colit ora\n Hellespontia, ceteris ostrior oris.\nThis grove to thee devote I give, Priapus!\n Whose home be Lampsacus and holt, Priapus!\n For thee in cities worship most the shores\n Of Hellespont the richest oystery strand.\nThis grove I dedicate and consecrate to thee, Priapus, who hast thy home at Lampsacus, and eke thy wood lands, Priapus; for thee especially in its cities worships the coast of the Hellespont, richer in oysters[1] than all other shores.\nEnd of the Epigrams\n[1. Oysters being an incentive to lust. Juvenal writes: 'She knows no difference 'twixt head and privities who devours immense oysters at midnight.']","title":"89. This grove to thee devote I give, Priapus!","type":"page"}