Gary, You are probably looking for the Priapea, a corpus of poems described as "gutter-latin...that pays tribute to the god Priapus, the wooden-phallused god of the garden." For a sample, see http://www.obscure.org/obscene-latin/obscure_texts.html (The Charles Bukowski Memorial Center for Classical Latin Studies: Obscenity in Classical Latin: The Obscure Organization)
There used to be some better Priapea/Priapus sites online, but the ones I had bookmarked are no longer in existence. The Priapea, or some of it, was traditionally attributed to Virgil. Dan Knauss At 08:02 PM 12/9/1998 -0000, you wrote: >I don't know the poem your referring to. But I thought you might find a >poem called the "Pervigilium Veneris" which is made up of half-lines and >lines from Vergil but on a rather more humorous topic interesting. >Unfortunately, I cannot remember who it is by. Anyone? > >Adrian Pay >-----Original Message----- >From: gary/margaret glazner/victor [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 4:02 PM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: VIRGIL: Lost poem > >Dear List, > >I am trying to find a poem Virgil wrote >regarding I believe "Peripus" >I copied it down in the museum at >Ephesus, however my notebook was stolen. > >I hope this request is within the bounds >of this list. > >The poem as close as I can remember >was addressed to some young men >encouraging them to revel in drink. > >thank you for any help >you can give me, > >Gary Glazner > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. >Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message >"unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You >can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub >----------------------------------------------------------------------- >To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. >Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message >"unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You >can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub > _____________________________________________ Dan Knauss - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Department of English, University of Wisconsin - Madison ----------------------------------------------------------------------- To leave the Mantovano mailing list at any time, do NOT hit reply. Instead, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message "unsubscribe mantovano" in the body (omitting the quotation marks). You can also unsubscribe at http://virgil.org/mantovano/mantovano.htm#unsub
