{"collection":"Classics","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/priap/prp92.htm","path":"cla/priap/prp92.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/cla/priap/prp92.htm","text":"Fur notae nimium rapacitatis\n compilare Cilix uolebat hortum,\n ingenti sed erat, Fabulle, in horto\n praeter marmoreum nihil Priapum.\n Dum non uolt uacua manu redire,\n ipsum subripuit Cilix Priapum.\nA robber famed for greed exceeding wonder\n (Eke a Cilician) would this garden plunder;\n Yet in its vasty space, Fabullus, naught\n Save a Priapus stood in marble wrought\n So the Cilician, who with hand sans pelf\n Scorn\u00e8d departing, stole Priapus' self.\nA Cilician thief of but too notorious rapacity wished to rob a certain garden; but large as the garden was, O Fabullus, there was naught in it save a marble Priapus. Not desiring to go back empty-handed, the Cilician stole Priapus himself.","title":"92. A robber famed for greed exceeding wonder","type":"page"}