"Cur pictum memori sit in tabella Membrum quaeritis unde procreamur? Cum penis mihi forte laesus esset, Chirurgique manum miser timerem, Diis me legitimis, nimisque magnis Ut Phoebo puta, filioque Phoebi Curatum dare mentulam verebar. Huic dixi, fer opem, Priape, parti, Cuius tu, pater, ipse par videris: Qua salva sine sectione facta, Ponetur tibi picta, quam levaris, Parque consimilisque concolorque. Promisit fore: mentulam movlt Pro nutu deus et rogata fecit."
— Priapeia

January 1, 1970

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Why, you ask, is portrayed on the tablet the member whereby we are begotten? When, as it befell, my penis was damaged, and like a wretched coward I dreaded the Surgeon's hand, I was afraid to entrust myself and the cure of my organ to the great official gods, that were too high for me, such I mean as Phoebus and Phoebus' son. "To the member, I said, do thou, Priapus, give aid,—the member that thou art fashioned in the likeness of. Then when it has been healed without the knife, a painted image o