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Priapean
Priapean Pri`a*pe"an, n. [Cf. L. Priapeius pertaining to Priapus.] (Lat. Pros.) A species of hexameter verse so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each, having generally a trochee in the first and the fourth foot, and an amphimacer in the third; -- applied also to a regular hexameter verse when so constructed as to be divisible into two portions of three feet each. --Andrews.

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- The Priapeia (or Carmina Priapea) is a collection of eighty (in some editions ninety-five) anonymous short Latin poems in various meters on subjects pertaining...
- heavily dependent on the 2nd century Suetonius, enumerated the Catalepton, Priapea, Epigrammata, Dirae, Ciris, and Culex as early works of Virgil; yet as...
- Priapeia 68 or Priapea 68 is the sixty-eighth poem in the Priapeia, a collection of Latin poetry of uncertain authorship. The eighty poems lack a unified...
- ISBN 026265038X. Suet. Tib. 43.2. Priapeia 4. Trans. L.C. Smithers and R.F. Burton, Priapea sive diversorum poetarum in Priapum lusus, or, Sportive Epigrams on Priapus...
- Verse Aeneid (19 BCE) Priapea 68 (c. 100) Roman de Troie (1155) De bello Troiano (1183) Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1380s) The Rape of the Lock (1712) The...
- "virility" (virilitas). Nonetheless, poems such as Catullus 16 and the Carmina Priapea, as well as speeches such as Cicero's In Verrem, demonstrate that manliness...
- times in the Priapea; Adams, pp. 10, 12. Adams, p. 13. Verpa appears once each in Catullus (28.12), Martial (11.46.2), and the Priapea (34.5). As a term...
- Verse Aeneid (19 BCE) Priapea 68 (c. 100) Roman de Troie (1155) De bello Troiano (1183) Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1380s) The Rape of the Lock (1712) The...
- century AD. Besides the foregoing, two pieces in the collection called Priapea (one an epigram and the other a longer piece in iambics) have been attributed...
- Verse Aeneid (19 BCE) Priapea 68 (c. 100) Roman de Troie (1155) De bello Troiano (1183) Troilus and Criseyde (c. 1380s) The Rape of the Lock (1712) The...