Sportive Epigrams on Priapus (65.3-67.3)

urn:cts:latinLit:phi1103.phi001.lascivaroma-eng1:65.3-67.3

Refs	`{'start': {'reference': '65.3', 'human_reference': 'Poem 65 Line 3'}, 'end': {'reference': '67.3', 'human_reference': 'Poem 67 Line 3'}}`
Ancestors	`[{'reference': '65'}]`
Children	`[]`

plain text • XML

Steal he as please him: I will see him not.

This, with his snout aye alert to uproot the lilies a-blowing,

Slain for thy victim 's the pig bred in the stye's tepid reek.

But, an thy will be not to murther the herd, O Priapus,

Grant of thy grace yon gate into the garden be shut.

Thou, who lest manly mark thy glances meet,

Hence fain avertest thee as suits the pure;

No wonder 'twere if that to see thou fear'st