[87] “_Priapeia_, sive diversorum poetarum in Priapum lusus, illustrati commentariis Casp. Scioppii, Franci; L. Apuleji Madaurensis Ἀνεχόμενος ab eodem illustratus. Heraclii imperatoris, Sophoclis Sophistae, C. Antonii, Q. Sorani et Cleopatrae reginae epistolae de prodigiosa Cleopatrae reginae libidine. Huic editioni accedunt Jos. Scaligeri in Priapeia Commentarii ac Friderici Linden-Bruch. Patavii 1664. 8. pag. 45. carmen XXXVII,” (_Priapeia_, or Verses of Various Poets to Priapus, illustrated by commentaries of Caspar Scioppius, a Frenchman; also Lucius Apuleius, of Madaura, his Ἀνεχόμενος, illustrated by the same Scholar. Letters of the Emperor Heraclius, Sophocles the Sophist, Caius Ausonius, Quintus Soranus and Queen Cleopatra, concerning the extravagant and wanton voluptuousness of the said Queen. To this edition are appended the Commentaries of Joseph Scaliger and of Fridericus Linden-Bruch to the Priapeia. Padua 1664. 8vo., p. 45. Ode XXXVII). [88] Similarly we read in the distich _Antipater_, Antholog. Graec. bk. II. Tit. 5. No. 3.: _Ἑστηκὸς_ τὸ Κίμωνος ἰδὼν _πέος_, εἶφ’ ὁ Πρίηπος, Οἴμοι, ὑπὸ θνητοῦ λείπομαι ἀθάνατος. (When Priapus saw Cimon’s penis standing stiff, he said, “Woe’s me!” I am thrown in the shade by a mortal, immortal though I be). [89] In the Codex Coburgensis the Priapeia begin with the following words: P. Virgilii Maronis Mantuani poetae clarissimi Priapi carmen incipit feliciter, (the Song of Priapus by Publius Virgilius Maro, of Mantua, the renowned poet, begins happily). Comp. _Bruckhusius_ Notes to Tibullus bk. IV. Eleg. 14. At any rate the majority of the poems belong to the golden age of Roman literature. For readers of the old poets it may perhaps not be out of place here to remark that _Priapus_ as _Cultor Hortorum_ (Patron of Gardens) is not unfrequently mentioned with an equivocal meaning, if indeed he has not come into the garden entirely through misunderstanding. So we read in Priapeia, Ode 4., Quod metis hortus habet, sumas impune licebit; Si dederis nobis, quod tuus hortus habet, (What my garden has thou mayest take at will, if only thou give to us what thine possesses) and in the “Anechomenos” of _Apuleius_. Thyrsumque pangant hortulo in Cupidinis,