#priapeia

[freecandyman]

do you ever just... remember the priapeia exists

[nathanielthecurious]

Bibliotheca Priapeiam recipere vult, sed ego eam retinere volo.

Ecce tamen: o sceleste penis. O sceleste penis! Et descriptio amicae Romuli...

[nathanielthecurious]

Callidus videor, magno cum studio librum Loeb legens, tamen modo in Priapeiam rideo.

[dirtylatin]

Carmen 29

Obscenis, peream, Priape, si non

Uti me pudet improbisque verbis.

Sed cum tu posito deus pudore

Ostendas mihi coleos patientes,

Cum cunno mihi mentula est vocanda.

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I, Priapus, would die by obscenities,

If only by wicked words it would shame me,

But when you, a god, burdened with shame,

show to me your widening balls,

With your cunt my dick must be named.

[fj-gc]

AN ILLUSTRATED SELECTION OF PRIAPEIA. This is the book project I made at the end of the first year of the MFA Illustration program at SVA. I printed some copies in an oversized zine version, which I am trading a copy for anyone willing to send me one of their zines or prints (shoot me an email!). Please visit my website so you can see higher resolution images of the illustrations and pages.

[dirtylatin]

Carmen 26

Porro -nam quis erit modus?- Quirites,

Aut praecidite seminale membrum,

Quod totis mihi noctibus fatigant

Vincae sine fine prurientes

Veneris passeribus salaciores,

Aut rumpar, nec habebitis Priapum.

Ipsi cernitis, effututus ut sim

Confectusque macerque pallidusque,

Qui quondam ruber et valens solebam

Fures caedere quamlibet valentes.

Defecit latus et periculosam

Cum tussi miser expuo silvam.

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Forward (For what will be the end?) citizens! Either cut down my dick, Because they tire me through the whole of nights The lustful neighboring women with no boundaries These women more salacious than the sparrows, Or I burst, for you will not have Priapus. You see for yourselves, that I have been finished, And I have been tiered out and haggard and pale, Which once i used to be red and strong However to slaughter the prevailing theives. My side has failed and dangerous spit Miserable me has expelled with a cough.

[dirtylatin]

Carmen 25

Hoc sceptrum, quod ab abore est rescisum,

Nulla iam poterit virere fronde,

Sceptrum, quod pathiticae tenere puellae,

Quod quidam cupiunt tenere reges,

Cui dant oscula nobiles cinaedi,

Intra viscera furis ibit usque

ad pubem capulumque coleorum.

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This staff, because it has been severed from the tree, Now no longer will it be able to sprout with branch, The staff, because they asked for pathetic girls, Because they desired to hold certain kings, To whom they give noble kisses of cock-sucking Between organs she will go all the way to even a theif to his pubes and ballsack.

(The style of this says Vergil, but the message is sooooooo Catullus...)

[dirtylatin]

Carmen 24

Hic me custodem fecundi vilicus horti

Mandati curam iussit habere loci.

Fur hebeas poenam, licet indignere “feram”que

"Propter holus" dicas "hoc ego?" "Propter holus".

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Here the master of a fruitful garden has ordered me as gaurd To have care for that place which was comanded. Theif, you should have punishment, and "theifery" is permitted to be wrathful. "On account of a vegtable," you ask, "that I do this?" "On account of a vegtable."

(Ok so i wasnt a fan of the latin in this poem. Oft words were jumbled and in weird order. Also feram in line three really annoys me and if any of you all have better translations send em in. )