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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 313 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PRIAPEIA , a collection of poems (about eighty in number) in various metres on the subject of See also:

Priapus. It was compiled from See also:literary See also:works and See also:inscriptions on images of the See also:god by an unknown editor, who composed the See also:introductory See also:epigram. From their See also:style and versification it is evident that the poems belong to the best See also:period of Latin literature. Some, however, may be interpolations of a later period. They will be found in F. Biicheler's See also:Petronius (1904), L. See also:Muller's See also:Catullus (187o), and E. Bahrens, Poetae See also:latini minores, i. (1879).

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