At 05:55 10-12-98 -0500, you wrote: >Gary, > >You are probably looking for the Priapea, a corpus of poems described as >"gutter-latin...that pays tribute to the god Priapus, the wooden-phallused >god of the garden." For a sample, see >http://www.obscure.org/obscene-latin/obscure_texts.html (The Charles >Bukowski Memorial Center for Classical Latin Studies: Obscenity in >Classical Latin: The Obscure Organization) > >There used to be some better Priapea/Priapus sites online, but the ones I >had bookmarked are no longer in existence. The Priapea, or some of it, was >traditionally attributed to Virgil.
This is a sideline, for I think Gary Glazner does not refer to the Priapea or the Pervigilium Veneris, but there is a complete online text of the Priapea, and of the Pervigilium for that matter, in The Latin Library, under Misc. The address is: >http://patriot.net/~lillard/cp/latlib Harm-Jan van Dam [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kraaierstraat 26 2311 NS Leiden,NL 31-715122397 Quantum est quod nescimus ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
