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Priapus

noun
1.
(classical mythology) god of male procreative power and guardian of gardens and vineyards.






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"Priapus" Quotes from Famous Books



... then for this Indiction the office of Rector of such and such a Province. Look at the broad stripe (laticlave) on your purple robe, and remember the dignity which is betokened by that bright garment, which poets say was first woven by Venus for her son Priapus, that the son's beautiful robe might ...
— The Letters of Cassiodorus - Being A Condensed Translation Of The Variae Epistolae Of - Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator • Cassiodorus (AKA Magnus Aurelius Cassiodorus Senator)

... should imitate. The statue of Cybele by the Tribolo, executed for Francis I., and placed, not against a wall, but in the middle of Queen Claude's chamber at Fontainebleau, has behind it an attribute which would have been more in place on a statue of Priapus, and which was the symbol of generativeness. The tone of the conversations was ordinarily of a surprising coarseness, and the Precieuses, in spite of their absurdities, did a very good work in setting themselves in opposition to it. The worthy Chevalier de La-Tour-Landry, in his Instructions to ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... Poore Priapus! whose triumph now must falle, Except thou thrust this weakeling to the walle. Behould! how he usurps, in bed and bowre And undermines thy kingdom ...
— The Choise of Valentines - Or the Merie Ballad of Nash His Dildo • Thomas Nash



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