The Priapeia Index

• ―Priapeia: Alphabetical List of first lines
• ―The Priapeia Index
• ―The Priapeia
• ―To the Reader
• ―1. In play, Priapus (thou canst testify)
• ―2. Darkly might I to thee say: Oh give me for ever and ever
• ―3. These tablets, sacred to the Rigid God
• ―4. All the conditions (they say) Priapus made with the youngling
• ―5. Though I be wooden Priapus (as thou see'st)
• ―6. Oft in my speech one letter is lost; for Predicate always
• ―7. Matrons avoid this site, for your chaste breed
• ―8. 'Why be my parts obscene displayed without cover?' thou askest
• ―9. Why laugh such laughter, O most silly maid?
• ―10. 'Ware of my catching! If caught, with rod I never will harm thee
• ―Alphabetical list of additional terms used by Latin authors in designation of the female sexual organ
• ―Sodomy with Women
• ―Erotic Classical Writers
• ―List of agricultural and horticultural terms used tropically in a venereal sense
• ―Sodomy
• ―Irrumation
• ―The Supine Posture in Coition
• ―Dancing Girls
• ―Masturbation
• ―Depilation by Catamites
• ―11. A she (than Hector's parent longer aged,
• ―Braccae
• ―Bestiality
• ―Postures of Coition
• ―Infibulation
• ―The Cunnilinges
• ―12. Thou shalt be pedicate (lad!), thou also (lass!) shalt be rogered
• ―13. Here' Here! nor dare expect (whoe'er thou be)
• ―14. Charged to my charge the fieldlet who shall dare
• ―15. Rare as those apples wherewith Hippomenes Schoeneïs ravished
• ―16. What hast thou, meddling watch, with me to do?
• ―17. Aye in this prickle of ours the bonniest boon to be found is
• ―18. Will ever Telethusa, posture-mime
• ―19. Thunders are under Jove; with the trident weaponed is Neptune
• ―20. Wealth is my loss! Do thou vouchsafe lend aid to my prayer,
• ―21. An fro' me woman shall thieve or plunder me man or a man-child,
• ―22. Whoso of violets here shall pluck or rose,
• ―23. Here has the bailiff, now of this plentiful garden the guardian,
• ―24. This staff of office cut from tree as 'tis,
• ―25. Hither, Quirites! (here what limit is?)
• ―26. Well-known darling of folk in the Circus Maximus far famed,
• ―27. Thou, of unrighteous thought, that hardly canst
• ―28. Priapus! perish I an words obscene
• ―29. Dreadful wi' sickle and dire with thy greater part, O Priapus!
• ―30. Hie thee amid these vines whereof an thou gather a grape-bunch
• ―31. Long as thy wanton hand to pluck refrain
• ―32. A damsel drier than the raisin'd grape,
• ―33. Wont the Priapi of old were to have both Naiads and Dryads
• ―34. At holy offering to the Lustful GodThief, for first thieving shalt be swived, but an
• ―35. Thief, for first thieving shalt be swived, but an
• ―36. We all show special notes of bodily shape:
• ―37. Why on memorial tablet do they limn
• ―38. Simply to thee I say whatever to say shall behove me
• ―39. Form-charms in Mercury have might to please
• ―40. Yon Telethusa befamed amid the damsels Suburran
• ―41. Whoso comes hither shall a bard become
• ―42. Bailiff Aristagoras of his grapes high-pedigree'd boasting
• ―43. Refrain from deeming all my sayings be
• ―44. What shouldest say this spear (although I'm wooden) be wishing
• ―45. Whenas the Rigid God espied a wight
• ―46. Ho girl! no whiter-skinned than Moorish man
• ―47. Who of you people here shall come to sup
• ―48. Tho' see you drenchèd wet that part of me
• ―49. Thou, who art 'customed to view around the walls of our temple
• ―50. A certain person, an thou please (Priapus!)
• ―51. What be this pother? For what cause suspects
• ―52. Ho thou, which hardly thy rapacious hand
• ―53. Bacchus often is wont with a moderate bunch to be sated
• ―54. E, D, an thou write, conjoining the two with a hyphen
• ―55. Who could believe my words? 'Tis shame to confess that the sickle
• ―56. Thou too dost mock me, Thief! and the infamous
• ―57. A chough, a caries, an eld-worn grave
• ―58. Whatever thief shall trick my faith may he
• ―59. Know, lest due warning be denied by thee
• ―60. Hadst thou as many of apples as offers of verses (Priapus!)
• ―61. Why, cultivator, vainly moan to me
• ―62. Sleep, O ye watchdogs! safe, while aid in guarding the garden
• ―63. 'Tis not enough, my friends, I set my seat
• ―64. One than a goose's marrow softer far
• ―65. This, with his snout aye alert to uproot the lilies a-blowing
• ―66. Thou, who lest manly mark thy glances meet
• ―67. PEnelope's first syllable followed by firstling of DIdo
• ―68. An I rustical seem to have spoken somewhat unlearned
• ―69. What then? Had Trojan yard Taenerian dame and her Cunnus
• ―70. When the fig's honied sweet thy taste shall catch
• ―71. A starveling stranger made me laughing-stock
• ―72. An thou pluck of this orchard fruit to my guarding committed
• ―73. Of vergers diligent guard (Priapus!), threat
• ―74. Not to be moved am I; shouldst thou, Thief, venture on thieving
• ―75. Why, O ye pathic girls, with sidelong oglings observe me?
• ―76. Right through the middle of lads and of lasses a passage shall pierce
• ―77. Dodona is hallowed, Jupiter, to thee
• ―78. Though I be agèd now, though head and chin
• ―79. The Gods and Goddesses deny thy teeth
• ―80. Although with yard distent (Priapus!) weighted
• ―81. Know that this crass coarse yard nor lengthens nor stands as becomes it
• ―82. While there is life 'tis fitting to hope, O rustical guardian!
• ―83. Bailiff of house whilom, now I of fieldlet the tiller
• ―84. What news be here? what send those angry gods?
• ―85. Neither of garden nor of blessed vine
• ―86. Roses in spring in the autumn fruits and in summer they bring me
• ―87. I thuswise fashioned I by rustic art
• ―88. This place, O youths, I protect, nor less this turf-builded cottage
• ―89. This grove to thee devote I give, Priapus!
• ―90. Thou who with prickle affrightest men and passives with sickle!
• ―91. I am not hewèd of the fragile elm
• ―92. A robber famed for greed exceeding wonder
• ―93. Carved me no rustic boor his artless sickle a-plying
• ―94. An thou would fain go filled thou mayest devour our Priapus
• ―95. First a wild-fig-tree trunk was I, not useful as timber
• ―A list of terms used in the Priapeia as designations of Priapus
• ―List of terms used in the Priapeia to designate the virile member of Priapus
• ―Alphabetical list of additional terms used by Latin authors in designation of the male sexual organ
• ―List of terms used in the Priapeia to designate the female sexual organ
• ―Title Page
• ―Contents
• ―Introduction
• ―A Word to the Reader
• ―1. In play, Priapus (thou canst testify)