Carmina (17.25-19.2)

urn:cts:latinLit:phi0472.phi001.perseus-eng3:17.25-19.2

Refs	`{'start': {'reference': '17.25', 'human_reference': 'Poem 17 Line 25'}, 'end': {'reference': '19.2', 'human_reference': 'Poem 19 Line 2'}}`
Ancestors	`[{'reference': '17'}]`
Children	`[]`

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Or in the sluggish mud his soul supine to deposit

Even as she-mule casts iron shoe where quagmire is stiffest.

TO PRIAPUS, THE GARDEN-GOD

This grove to thee devote I give, Priapus!

Who home be Lampsacus and holt, Priapus!

For thee in cities worship most the shores

Of Hellespont the richest oystery strand.

To PRIAPUS

This place, O youths, I protect, nor less this turfbuilded cottage,

Roofed with its osier-twigs and thatched with its bundles of sedges;