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49. Thou, Who Art 'customed To View Around

49

Priapus

Tu, quicumque vides circa tectoria nostra

non nimium casti carmina plena ioci,

versibus obscenis offendi desine: non est

mentula subducti nostra supercilii.

Thou, who art 'customed to view around the walls of our temple

Verse of a strain jocose rather than modest and chaste,

Cease to be hurt by the song obscene, for verily ne'er was

Wont our mentule to wear eyebrow up-drawn in surprise.

Thou who seest the walls of my temple covered round with jocose poems, not too chaste, cease to be shocked at the obscene verses: mine is not a mentule with raised eyebrow.
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