Sportive Epigrams on Priapus (41.4-43.3)

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Refs	`{'start': {'reference': '41.4', 'human_reference': 'Poem 41 Line 4'}, 'end': {'reference': '43.3', 'human_reference': 'Poem 43 Line 3'}}`
Ancestors	`[{'reference': '41'}]`
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Held by the pathic girls like in degree to a god.

Whoso comes hither shall a bard become

And to me dedicate facetious verse;

But who thiswise doth not, 'mid learnèd poets

Shall pace with fundament fulfilled of 'figs'.

Bailiff Aristagoras of his grapes high-pedigree'd boasting

Apples moulded in wax giveth, O Godhead, to thee:

But thou, pleased with the fruit in effigy placed on thine altar,