god
Priapus
also: Priapus
The ithyphallic garden-god, whose crude wooden image guarded orchards against thieves and birds; here the comic narrator who routs the witches.
Reading notes
- The Epodes §2 Priapus
The ithyphallic garden-god, set up as a scarecrow and guardian of orchards and gardens.
- The Satires §1.8 or a Priapus
Priapus, the ithyphallic garden-god whose crude wooden image, armed with an outsized phallus, scared thieves and birds from orchards; here the burlesque narrator.